NAMES: How would you like to visit another planet?

You may not be able to go to Mars anytime soon, but NASA is offering a chance for people to have their names sent to the Red Planet.

Microchips with the names will be placed on NASA’s Mars 2020 rover. If all goes according to plan, the spacecraft could leave Earth as soon as July 2020 and land on Mars in February 2021.

NASA describes in a statement released Wednesday the adventures the Mars 2020 rover will take.

“The rover, a robotic scientist weighing more than 2,300 pounds (1,000 kilograms), will search for signs of past microbial life, characterize the planet’s climate and geology, collect samples for future return to Earth, and pave the way for human exploration of the Red Planet,” the agency reported.

People can now add their names to the list at https://go.nasa.gov/Mars2020Pass.

“The opportunity to send your name to Mars comes with a souvenir boarding pass and ‘frequent flyer’ points,” NASA stated. “This is part of a public engagement campaign to highlight missions involved with NASA’s journey from the Moon to Mars. Miles (or kilometers) are awarded for each ‘flight,’ with corresponding digital mission patches available for download. More than 2 million names flew on NASA’s InSight mission to Mars, giving each ‘flyer’ about 300 millions frequent flyer miles (nearly 500 million frequent flyer kilometers).”

People have until Sept. 30 to sign up.

At the Microdevices Laboratory at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., staff “will use an electron beam to etch the submitted names onto a silicon chip with lines of text smaller than one-thousandth the width of a human hair (75 nanometers).”

More than a million names this size will fit on a microchip the size of a dime.

Studying Mars will bring the human race closer to the day we will be able to send people to live there.