I came across this yesterday on my brother-in-law's Facebook page and was instantly sold...NASA is accepting your boarding pass to Mars! With your boarding pass, your name will get to fly on Orion's Flight Test to Mars launching in December. Uhh, nerd awesomeness!! Of course I put my name in so I could participate in this. Boarding pass for Jennifer Jones below! In case you don't know me well, I kind of geek out about space stuff. When I was little, I wanted to be an astronaut when I grew up...at least until I saw the Apollo 13 movie. I sure the hell didn't want to get stuck in space! That dashed my dreams. Safety first. My inner-nerd was also confirmed when I took the "Which Pixar Movie Are You?" quiz on Buzzfeed a few months ago and ended up with the result of Wall-E. This actually made me furious because I consider it one of the worst movies ever, but then the description won me over with a line like, "As a kid, you probably dreamed of going to space camp." Eff. You win, Buzzfeed!
Anyway, I don't have a clue how this whole mission to Mars thing actually goes down...I doubt they'll be printing off the 1.1 million boarding passes they've accrued so far and stuffing them in a suitcase to shuttle on up to space, but regardless, I'm trusting that my name somehow gets there and that...is...awesome! In some small way, my childhood dream of traveling to space will be fulfilled. Over and out.
P.S. This earns me 60,000 Frequent Flyer points.
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