| Send A Personal Postcard Into Space |
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| Written by Suzann Kale | |
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You've made your mark on the world? Why not on space...
It isn't something we need to do, like cleaning up the planet or developing fossil-fuel free energy.
But it could make a fabulous gift for that hard-to-buy-for loved one or company president.
You write a postcard and send it off to Joshua Gigantino in Providence, Rhode Island. Then his company, Postcards to Space, digitally prints your card onto an art satellite he is building.
The space sculpture is called STREET - a 325-foot ring - and
 Gigantino's business plan has it orbiting the earth in 2008. Not only will your postcard be on the space sculpture, but Gigantino's crew will take a picture of it, with your postcard showing, and will email this photo back to you. That's so you can print and frame it, or so that you know your postcard really did make it as part of an orbiting space sculpture. Gigantino says you can put anything on the postcards that represents who you are, or who your giftee is. "Write or draw anything you want on your Postcard... Or upload a picture of someone or something you love and want to share," he says on his website, Post Cards to Space.
Gigantino plans to build many of these space sculptures. Basically, they are giant inflatable rings made of plastic film, which will fly in Low Earth Orbit.
The cost to be a part of this space art is around $25.00. If you're going to do it, your post card must be in to Gigantino by January 31, 2008.
The only "downsides" I can think of is (1) your postcard and images will be in the public domain, and (2) the spacecraft may not be successful. However - Gigantino says you will get a full refund if the spacecraft doesn't get launched by December 21, 2010.
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posted Jan.16, 2007
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