I'm on my way to Mars !!

This is too cool !!

"the spacecraft is now spinning up to 70 revolutions per minute... Third stage separated and ignited! Go go go...

Good quality data from Hawaii...  TECO! Third stage cutoff!

Everything nominal... With that final third-stage burn, Phoenix is now on its Mars-bound trajectory. "

..and on it goes a  silica glass mini-DVD with a quarter million names on it -- including mine !!

I wonder if some Martian can beam up all these names into some intraspace galaxy which is not our own !!