NASA Will Let You Ride Along on the Mars 2020 Mission for Free, Sort Of

NASA’s mission to Mars in 2020 is moving forward as scheduled, but if you move fast, you can hitch a ride.

The U.S. space agency is allowing the public to send their names to Mars for free, if you submit your information by the deadline. The names will be etched on a microchip and placed aboard the the Mars 2020 rover, allowing the names to live on in space history forever.

So far, just over 6 million names have been submitted, and you can still add yours and receive a digital boarding pass as a souvenir. When all the names have been submitted, NASA will post an image of the microchip on the NASA website.

The deadline is Sept. 30, 2019, 11:59 p.m. ET, see you on Mars!