This week’s Pet Parade 310 is a break from our photography series to let you know about a NASA project that really tickles our funny paw bone.
Dash Kitten is going to Mars? What the heck is all that about?
You may know that Dash Kitten, Harvey Button and I love space travel and we reported on the Cassini-Huygens project. We watched as Cassini plunged into Saturn and were amazed that so many watched the broadcast live on YouTube.
NASA created an e-book packed of gorgeous space photographs to celebrate the end of Cassini-Huygens amazing 20-year voyage through space. It is free and we added a link at the bottom of this post.
NASA’s Mars Rover 2020 is heading towards the red planet and it wants to take many of us with it. This is a fun and lighthearted side to a serious project that will explore Mars with technology that is the best the world has to offer.
How do I join the trip to Mars?
All you need to do is submit your name by Sept. 30, 2019, 11:59 p.m. ET and you get to fly along to Mars. ANYONE CAN JOIN IN!!
All submissions are recorded by country as you can see on the map below and I was really excited to submit Dash Kitten as a traveller. He may be an angel but he can now travel with Mars Rover 2020 ‘to infinity and beyond’ as Buzz Lightyear always says.
Sure, it’s a bit of fun, and we may never visit Mars but a small part of the Dash Kitten Crew will set off in 2020 on the voyage of a lifetime. I have already printed off Dash’s boarding pass and will watch him clock up air miles after the launch!
Will you join Dash as he launches into space? I look forward to the updates as the Rover travels to Mars. He is a small part of something very special.
STOP PRESS
Crafting for Shelter Pets
Basil’s B Team has exploded back into action after their enforced rest (staff threw herself through a ceiling).
They are celebrating Crafting for Shelter Pets Week with a series of epically easy to make toys for shelter pets everywhere and their work is seriously amazing for everyone.
- You need to visit the posts.
- Check out the super easy instructions and
- MAKE A TOY for a shelter pet
- It is SO EASY!
- The cool Snuggle Buddy
- The super-easy Kitty Kicker
- More to follow……. Check Bionic Basil TODAY!
Space Resource Notes
- NASA Privacy Policy
- Send Your Name to Mars Page
- Farewell Cassini
- NASA Cassini Celebration e-book (downloadable)
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Ellen Pilch says
Very cool! Thanks for hosting the Pet Parade. XO
Marjorie Dawson says
It’s lovely to see regulars Ellen, thank you.
Melissa K. Clinton says
That is such a fun way to participate in the space program! The Bayou Boys want to go too.
Meezer's Mews & Terrieristical Woofs says
Yup!! That is a great thing for our Angels to do…since they traverse the universe as it were…so Minko and MJF are signed up!
Thanks for the heads up…Mars…here we come, MOL!
Brian Frum says
That really is super cool…or I could say it will be a real blast MOL!
Athena says
Really cool that you submitted Dash Kitten!
mommakatandherbearcat says
Well, now that’s cool! Umm … do you think I could send Smellie?! Like for real? ~Bear Cat
meowmeowmans says
That’s so cool, and we love that submitted Dash Kitten so he could go along to Mars. And we are glad to see our Basil and the B Team back in the swing of things. Those crafts are great!