[FPSPACE] MIT students would put slogans on satellite to raise funds

[LARRY KLAES]

Prime ad space. In space.

MIT students would put slogans on satellite to raise funds

By Jenn Abelson, Globe Staff  |  November 3, 2006

In a novel bid to raise money to send a research satellite into space, a 
group of students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is offering 
companies and individuals a chance to put their advertisements into orbit 
around the Earth.

This week, MIT's Mars Gravity Biosatellite Program launched a website, 
YourNameIntoSpace.org , and created a group on Facebook.com -- "I'm Sending 
My Name into Space and You Should Too!" -- that will sell space on the 
satellite where cosmic marketers can place their logos, slogans, photos, and 
other images.

The group needs about $30 million by 2010 to help finance the YNIS project, 
which is researching how mammals are affected by long-term exposure to 
Mars-like gravity.

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