“Beam Me to Mars” Project Announces Voice and Music Message Capability to Mars

BOULDER, Colo. - Sept. 22, 2014 - PRLog -- Boulder, Colorado—22 September 2014—Space company Uwingu announced today that its Beam Me to Mars project has added a major new and historic capability. Now, in addition to text messages and pictures, people can now beam their voice, their original music, or a friend’s/relative’s voice to Mars! Never before have private individuals been able to send their music, voice, thoughts in text, and names to Mars by radio transmission.

The project is hosted at http://www.uwingu.com and is a first of its kind, allowing anyone to send a message to Mars by radio for the first time.

Uwingu is also announcing that is has partnered with Astronomy Magazine to send the names of over 80,000 Astronomy subscribers to Mars—the first time any magazine or publication has radioed its subscriber roster to another planet.

Uwingu Beam Me to Mars messages can be as simple as a name, or can be more elaborate, including text, voice, music, and even images. Anyone can send messages to Mars. Message pricing begins at $5 and helps Uwingu create grants for space exploration, research, and education.

All messages in Uwingu’s ‘Beam Me’ transmission will be sent to Mars together at a rate of 1 million bits per second on November 28^th. The messages will travel at the speed of light—arriving at Mars just 15 minutes after they are sent.

Celebrities who have already posted messages to be sent to Mars via Uwingu’s Beam Me to Mars project, include:

  Motion picture actors Seth Green and wife Clare Grant

  Television actor Ryan Merriman

  Star Trek actor George (“Sulu”) Takei and husband Brad Takei

  Bill Nye, The Science Guy

  Former International Space Station commander and media star, astronaut Chris Hadfield

  Commercial astronaut Richard Garriott

  Former NASA Deputy Administrator Lori Garver

  Pulitzer winning author and playwright Dava Sobel (Galileo’s Daughter, Longitudes)

  Author and screenwriter Homer Hickam (The Rocket Boys, October Sky)

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About Uwingu. Uwingu (which means “sky” in Swahili, and is pronounced “oo-wing-goo”) was founded in 2012 and consists of a team of leading astronomers, planetary scientists, former space program executives and educators. Uwingu is a for-profit company dedicated to creating new ways for people to personally connect with space exploration and education while also raising funds to support non-profit organizations working space exploration and astronomy. A pioneer in this industry, Uwingu is currently creating the first crowd-sourced map of Mars. Since the project began in February 2014, individuals have named over 12,000 craters and The Uwingu Fund has already allocated over $100,000 for grants. Visit Uwingu’s website to learn more at www.uwingu.com.