Send your name on NASA’s Artemis II trip around the Moon. Find out how

NASA is offering people around the world a chance to take part in spaceflight history by sending their names to the Moon on the Artemis II mission.

The agency is now accepting registrations for Artemis II, the first crewed flight in NASA’s Artemis programme. Anyone can add their first and last name through NASA’s official “Send Your Name” website and join the mission in a symbolic way.

Those who sign up will be able to download a digital boarding pass, while their names will be saved on a flash drive carried aboard the Orion spacecraft.

Artemis II is set to launch on Wednesday, April 1, 2026. The four-member crew includes Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch and Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jeremy Hansen. The astronauts are expected to spend about 10 days flying around the Moon.

The mission is an important step for NASA, as it will test the Orion spacecraft and the Space Launch System rocket ahead of future missions designed to return humans to the lunar surface.

To register, participants must enter their first and last name and create a personal PIN containing four to seven digits. NASA says this PIN is important for tracking registration details, as lost codes cannot be recovered. People who have already signed up can also use the online portal to find their boarding pass.

The names will be stored on an SD card aboard Orion, which is expected to travel more than 230,000 miles from Earth as the spacecraft flies around the far side of the Moon.

The initiative follows a similar campaign during Artemis I, which carried names on an uncrewed test flight.