Uwingu Announces An Out-Of-This-World Father’s Day Gift Idea

BOULDER, Colo. - June 11, 2015 - PRLog -- Space company Uwingu announced today a campaign to gift dads for Father’s Day with place names on its Mars map. Uwingu’s Mars Map will be carried to Mars aboard the first Mars One robotic lander.

Through Father’s Day—Sunday June 21st—Uwingu is offering special, decorative Father’s Day certificates for anyone choosing to honor a dad this way. Two certificate options are available: an electronic downloadable version and a beautifully printed and framed keepsake version.

Uwingu also announced that those purchasing the 50 largest craters named  between now and Father’s Day will receive a 2-for-1 bonus: a gift certificate of equal value; allowing them to put additional crater names on the Mars map for free anytime in 2015.

Prices for naming craters depend on the size of the crater, and begin at $5. Half of Uwingu’s revenues go to fund the Uwingu Fund for space research and education grants.

Said Uwingu’s Ellen Butler, “I'm excited to name a crater on the Uwingu Mars map in honor of my own dad. It’ll be fun to share this with him on Father’s Day. I know he’ll love telling his friends that I named a crater for him!”

Uwingu’s Mars Map Crater Naming Project at www.uwingu.com allows anyone to help name approximately 590,000 unnamed, scientifically cataloged craters on Mars. Uwingu’s Mars map grandfathers in all the already named craters on Mars, but opens the remainder up for naming by people around the globe.

Dr. Alan Stern, Uwingu’s CEO added, “This is an out-of-this-world way to honor dads across this planet. Help your dad join our Dads on Mars club!”

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About Uwingu: Uwingu (which means “sky” in Swahili, and is pronounced “oo-wing-oo”) was formed by a team of leading astronomers, planetary scientists, former space program executives, and educators. Uwingu is a for-profit, public engagement space company based in Boulder, CO, led by senior planetary scientists and astronomers (see http://www.uwingu.com/about-us/who-we-are/).

Uwingu’s twin missions are to connect the public to space and space exploration in new ways, and to create a grant fund to support a wide range of space efforts by individual space researchers, educators, and organizations. The company and its advisory board includes space historian and author Andrew Chaikin, space educator Dr. Emily CoBabe-Ammann, author and former museum science director Dr. David Grinspoon, planet hunter Dr. Geoff Marcy, Mars scientists Drs. Peter Smith and Teresa Segura, planetary scientist and former NASA science director, Alan Stern and space artists Jon Lomberg and Dan Durda. Visit Uwingu’s web site at www.uwingu.com to learn more.

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