Getting your player ready...
If the Mars One mission to put a permanent human settlement on Mars succeeds, its pioneers could be carrying a map that Earth-bound folks helped create.
And the work of building that map now comes with a holiday-season tie-in.
Uwingu, a Boulder-based company aimed at helping people connect with space exploration and astronomy, has created what it bills as a “worldwide, first-ever” opportunity to celebrate the holidays by naming a feature on Mars as a gift — for as little as $5.
Uwingu’s CEO and founder, Alan Stern, acknowledged that commercial ventures offering naming rights in space are nothing new and that some of them are “scams.”
Read more of the article at DailyCamera.com.
