After a July 2020 launch from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, NASA’s 2020 Mars Rover is scheduled to land on the red planet in February 2021 and begin its mission to profile the geology and atmosphere and Members of the public who want to send their name to Mars on NASA's next rover mission to the red planet can get a souvenir boarding pass and their names stenciled on chips to be affixed to the rover. Source: NASA/JPL-Caltechexplore for evidence of microbial life. Members of the public are invited to accompany this historic mission, if in name only.

Names submitted by Sept. 30, 2019, will be stenciled onto silicon chips by the Microdevices Laboratory at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Lines of text smaller than one-thousandth the width of a human hair (75 nanometers) will be etched with an electron beam, enabling more than a million names to be written on a single dime-sized microchip and carried by the rover under a glass cover.

Armchair astronauts receive a souvenir boarding pass and "frequent flyer" miles or kilometers and the opportunity to download a digital mission patch as proof of participation in this venture to prepare for human exploration of Mars.