NASA wants to fly your name to the moon with Artemis II astronauts

September 9, 2025

— You can now add yourself to the first crew to launch to the moon in more than 50 years.

As part of the preparations leading up to the Artemis II mission next year, NASA is inviting the public to join the flight’s four astronauts, if only in name.

“Artemis II is… an opportunity to inspire people across the globe and to give them an opportunity to follow along as we lead the way in human exploration deeper into space,” Lori Glaze, acting associate administrator in the Exploration Systems Development Mission Directorate at NASA Headquarters in Washington, said a statement.

Anyone can add their name to fly on the 10-day mission by registering for free on NASA’s website. The agency’s “Send Your Name with Artemis II” campaign will be open to submissions through Jan. 21, 2026.

After registering, participants can download a collectible “boarding pass” affirming that their name will be aboard the mission’s Orion spacecraft. All of the names will be stored on a flash memory card, which will be added to the Artemis II Official Flight Kit, alongside other commemoratives being flown by NASA and its partners.

Thousands have people have already added their names to the effort.

The four Artemis II crew members are commander Reid Wiseman, pilot Victor Glover and mission specialist Christina Koch, all of NASA, and mission specialist Jeremy Hansen with the Canadian Space Agency. They will be the first people to voyage to the moon since the Apollo missions.

Artemis II, which is targeted to launch no later than April 2026, is the latest flight to include a “fly your name” campaign. A similar collection was carried out for the uncrewed Artemis I flight, which resulted in 3.4 million people signing up to be on the 26-day lunar orbit in late 2022.

Other NASA missions to include a flash drive or microchip inscribed with names have included the OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample return (442,803 names), the Parker solar probe (1,137,202), the Perseverance Mars rover (10,932,295) and the Europa Clipper (2,620,861), which is on its way to a 2030 arrival at Jupiter’s ocean-covered moon.

Among the first “fly your name” campaigns launched with NASA’s Stardust probe to Comet Wild 2 in 1999. Two microchips, one inside the sample return capsule and the other on the comet dust collection arm, held more than a million names, including all 52,214 inscribed on the Vietnam Memorial in Washington. The Stardust microchip that returned to Earth is now on display inside the Kenneth C. Griffin Exploring the Planets Gallery at the National Air and Space Museum.