The United States space agency, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), is giving space enthusiasts an opportunity to add their names in its Mars mission, InSight (Interior Exploration Using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport).

According to NASA, interested individual from all over the world can participate in the journey to deep space by making their names on a silicon microchip which will be sent on the future Mars mission. As per the agency's plan, the mission will be launched between March 4 and 30 next year from California's Vandenburg Air Force Base.

Jim Green, director of planetary science at NASA headquarters in Washington, said, "Next step in the journey to Mars is another fantastic mission to the surface. By participating in this opportunity to send your name to the Red Planet, you're showing that you're part of that journey and the future of space exploration".

Interested space geeks can send their entry until September 8. The space agency's InSight Mars lander is slated to visit the fourth planet from the Sun in March next year. If everything goes as per the agency's plan, the lander will reach its destination in September 2016. The lander will take individuals' names with it.

According to reports by Focus News, the NASA project to take a number of names to the Red Planet on a silicon microchip is named 'fly-your-name'. It is not the first time when a NASA mission is taking people's names into space. Last December, more than one million names on board the Orion spacecraft's first flight were sent into space.