How to send your name to Moon with NASA's Artemis II?

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is giving people a chance to be part of history by sending their names to the Moon.

The space agency is currently accepting registrations for its Artemis II mission, which will be the first crewed mission of its Artemis program. Anyone can register their first and last name for the historic mission through NASA's official “Send Your Name” website.

Registered participants will be able to download a digital boarding pass and have their names stored on a flash drive aboard the Orion spacecraft.

Artemis II is scheduled to launch on Wednesday, April 1, 2026.

The crew consists of four astronauts named Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch, and CSA astronaut Jeremy Hansen will spend approximately 10 days around the Moon.  

The mission serves as a critical test of the Orion spacecraft and the Space Launch System rocket before future missions aim to land humans on the lunar surface.

To register, participants need to provide a first and last name in addition to a personal 4–7-digit PIN.

With the help of PIN, participants can keep track as the agency can’t recover lost codes. Those who have already signed up can search for their boarding pass using the online portal.

The names will be stored on an SD card on board Orion, which will travel more than 230,000 miles from Earth as the crew circles the far side of the Moon. 

The program is similar to one done on the Artemis I mission, which flew an unmanned test flight into space.