WASHINGTON, DC, Oct. 30, 2026 — Your name can't fly to Titan without a rocket, but NASA is offering a ride. The agency is inviting the public to add their names to a microchip that will travel aboard Dragonfly, a rotorcraft headed for Saturn's largest moon.
NASA announced the "Journey to Titan" campaign on Thursday, Oct. 29. Sign-ups are at go.nasa.gov/dragonfly-names and stay open until 11:59 p.m. EST on Jan. 15, 2027, NASA said. Each person who signs up gets a personalized digital boarding pass.
"NASA's Dragonfly mission will simply blow your mind," said Nicky Fox, associate administrator of NASA's Science Mission Directorate, in the agency's release.
About the mission
NASA calls Dragonfly the first science mission to fly and explore the surface of another world. The rotorcraft is being assembled at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, MD, and is scheduled to launch in 2028, according to NASA.
After it arrives in 2034, NASA says, Dragonfly will fly to different spots on Titan, a world with a thick atmosphere, lakes and rivers of liquid methane, and sweeping dunes. It'll search for clues about prebiotic chemistry, "the chemistry that came before biology," to help scientists understand the ingredients and conditions for life.
Dragonfly is the fourth mission in NASA's New Frontiers Program, the agency said. APL leads the mission for NASA, and APL's Elizabeth Turtle is the principal investigator.
It's a long trip, but the boarding pass is free.
Sources: NASA release 26-091, Oct. 29, 2026; NASA on X. Image: NASA/Johns Hopkins APL.
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