{"id":907621,"date":"2026-11-06T05:38:16","date_gmt":"2026-11-06T05:38:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/907621\/"},"modified":"2026-11-06T05:38:16","modified_gmt":"2026-11-06T05:38:16","slug":"you-could-become-a-passenger-on-nasas-next-mission-to-saturns-largest-moon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/907621\/","title":{"rendered":"You could become a ‘passenger’ on NASA’s next mission to Saturn’s largest moon"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Bethany Ehlmann, president of The Planetary Society, joins FOX Weather to discuss how a NASA spacecraft spotted a “once-in-a-lifetime” moon crater during a routine data quality check.<\/p>\n

There is now a chance to get a personalized boarding pass to space<\/a> without ever stepping aboard a spacecraft<\/a>.<\/p>\n

NASA’S SWIFT TELESCOPE FACES FINAL COUNTDOWN WITH FIERY RETURN TO EARTH POSSIBLE WEDNESDAY<\/a><\/p>\n

NASA<\/a> is giving the public an opportunity to send their names to Saturn’s<\/a> largest moon, Titan, aboard the agency’s Dragonfly rotorcraft.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Names submitted will be placed on a chip that will be aboard the spacecraft<\/a>, and participants will receive a personalized boarding pass and have their names added to the Dragonfly passenger list.<\/p>\n

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The public can send their names to NASA to be aboard the agency’s Dragonfly rotorcraft.\u00a0<\/p>\n

(NASA \/ NASA)<\/p>\n

The spacecraft is scheduled to launch in 2028 and travel<\/a> nearly a billion miles to reach Titan.<\/p>\n

The public has until\u00a0Jan. 15, 2027, at 11:59 p.m. EST\u00a0to secure a spot on the mission.<\/p>\n

NASA\u2019S PLAN TO BUILD A MOON BASE STARTS WITH THESE ROVERS<\/a><\/p>\n

According to NASA<\/a>, Titan is a world with rivers, lakes, changing seasons, sweeping dunes and a landscape rich in organic material.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Dragonfly is expected to arrive in 2034, where it will investigate the moon’s<\/a> chemistry and uncover clues about the ingredients that may have helped life develop.<\/p>\n

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Artist’s concept of Dragonfly on the surface of Titan.\u00a0<\/p>\n

(Johns Hopkins APL \/ NASA)<\/p>\n

Dragonfly will use its rotorcraft to travel several miles across Titan’s surface during its planned 3.3-year mission.<\/p>\n

As it flies through Titan’s yellowish, smoggy haze and nitrogen-rich atmosphere<\/a>, Dragonfly will visit a variety of geological<\/a> sites, collecting samples of surface material for analysis aboard the rotorcraft.<\/p>\n

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“Dragonfly isn’t a mission to detect life \u2014 it’s a mission to investigate the chemistry that came before biology here on Earth<\/a>,” Dragonfly Principal Investigator and Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory planetary scientist Zibi Turtle said.<\/p>\n

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The Dragonfly rotorcraft is expected to arrive at Titan in 2034.\u00a0<\/p>\n

(NASA \/ NASA)<\/p>\n

Dragonfly is expected to complete one flight every one to two Titan days, known as a\u00a0sol. Each sol lasts approximately 16 Earth days.<\/p>\n

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During its mission, Dragonfly will investigate how far prebiotic chemistry has progressed, identify compounds and search for chemical indicators that could point to water-based or hydrocarbon-based life.<\/p>\n

A journey nearly a billion miles away is ahead, and the public has a chance to be part of it \u2014 without ever leaving Earth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bethany Ehlmann, president of The Planetary Society, joins FOX Weather to discuss how a NASA spacecraft spotted a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":907622,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[29407,230004,12879,7042,718,32902,79,193,953,46320,230006,25],"class_list":["post-907621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-atmosphere","tag-earth-space","tag-geology","tag-moon","tag-nasa","tag-saturn","tag-science","tag-space","tag-space-weather","tag-spaceflight","tag-stay22","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/907621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=907621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/907621\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/907622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=907621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=907621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=907621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}