{"id":2642,"date":"2015-07-10T20:04:38","date_gmt":"2015-07-11T00:04:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/?p=2642"},"modified":"2025-09-07T17:47:26","modified_gmt":"2025-09-07T21:47:26","slug":"flying-by-pluto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/2015\/07\/flying-by-pluto\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting my name out there"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/mission_pages\/newhorizons\/main\/index.html\">New Horizons<\/a><\/em> is currently <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/feature\/new-image-of-pluto-houston-we-have-geology\">checking out Pluto<\/a> and my name is on board. Today, I read that in 2005, you could give NASA your name and they&#8217;d burn it on a CD and attach it to the <em>New Horizons<\/em> probe.&nbsp;It sounded like something I would do. <a href=\"http:\/\/pluto.jhuapl.edu\/Mission\/Communications\/Search-Name.php\">It turns out<\/a>, it&#8217;s something that I did.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1324\" height=\"1176\" src=\"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/pluto-certificate-1.png\" alt=\"certificate with my name\" class=\"wp-image-2643\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/pluto-certificate-1.png 1324w, https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/pluto-certificate-1-300x266.png 300w, https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/pluto-certificate-1-1024x910.png 1024w, https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/pluto-certificate-1-768x682.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1324px) 100vw, 1324px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>By the way, I&#8217;m currently reading <i>The Martian.<\/i> I hadn&#8217;t read science fiction in a while, and I&#8217;m really enjoying the&nbsp;book. I&#8217;m looking forward to seeing the movie in October.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Horizons is currently checking out Pluto and my name is on board. Today, I read that in 2005, you could give NASA your name and they&#8217;d burn it on a CD and attach it to the New Horizons probe.&nbsp;It sounded like something I would do. It turns out, it&#8217;s something that I did. By &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/2015\/07\/flying-by-pluto\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Getting my name out there<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geek"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2642"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2642\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3524,"href":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2642\/revisions\/3524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}