Messages From Earth
YOU Can Be a Part of the Story of Space Exploration!

The Phoenix DVD – that landed on Mars on May 25 – contains one of many Messages from Earth that have been sent on missions throughout our solar system.

Handwritten signatures scanned to a disc around Saturn...
Microchip lithograph flying through a comet tail on Stardust...
Etched on foil around the Moon...

This amazing combination of technology and the human spirit will chronicle humanity throughout the universe.

The story of space exploration is being written everyday.

Fifty years ago we couldn't have told this story, but  50 years from now our names and thoughts...those Messages from Earth...will be part of the story...part of the permanent  record of space exploration.

Here's where our messages are now...
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