Now's your chance for celestial immortality sort of. NASA wants you to put on your thinking caps and come up with a name for the Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope (GLAST), a high-energy telescope scheduled for launch in mid-May.

Mission planners are opening the floor to the public to get them involved in the mission. "The idea is to give people a chance to come up with a name that will fully engage the public in the GLAST mission," says project scientist Steve Ritz (NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center) in the announcement released today.
To submit your idea, read the guidelines at the GLAST website and fill out the form. Entries are due by the end of March. Be sure to print out your own "certificate of participation" so you'll be able to prove to your friends that you came up with the selected name.
The name I choose:
The Sunray Observatory
I submitted this to NASA earlier.
GORT (Gamma-ray Observational Research Telescope).
GORT was the robot in the classic movie, “The Day the Earth Stood Still”.
It was a mission of peace and goodwill.
Gort or StarGazer is good
My name for the probe is THE DEEP DREAMER TELESCOPE. If that name is choosen, it will be close to my heart. I see all these astro pictures and they make me want to build a warp drive, but I’m afarid everyone, my brain isn’t able to build the equations for it. DEEP DREAMER TELESCOPE is looking into a realm of possiblites, and dreams!!
My name for the probe is THE DEEP DREAMER TELESCOPE. If that name is choosen, it will be close to my heart. I see all these astro pictures and they make me want to build a warp drive, but I’m afarid everyone, my brain isn’t able to build the equations for it. DEEP DREAMER TELESCOPE is looking into a realm of possiblites, and dreams!!