The “Send Your Name to Mars” campaign launched by the U.S. space agency NASA lists Taiwan as a country on the application page, shattering the glass hearts of mainland Chinese netizens. (Photo credit: Taken from NASA)
According to Taiwan’s Free Times, NASA launched the “Send Your Name to Mars” campaign in 2019, as long as the “travelers” registered on NASA’s website, NASA will etch the registrant’s name into the silicon chip, following the Mars rover launch, sent to space. The Mars rover was launched last July and sent to space.
Last July launched the Mars Rover “Trail” successfully landed on Mars, as many as 10,932,295 “passengers” on Mars, Taiwan has 21,167 people registered to participate.
This year, NASA again launched a registration campaign to prepare the next batch of names to be sent to Mars. However, because NASA in the registration page to Taiwan to “country” (Country), and Hong Kong and Macao specifically added as China’s special administrative regions, this move fell a piece of mainland Chinese netizens, well-known blogger “NASA super talk” and some The famous blogger “NASA super talk” and some bloggers again came out to resist. The “NASA Super Talk” issued a “stern statement” last year, claiming that “NASA’s Mars ticket application page lists Taiwan as a separate country, which is a serious act of fragmentation of China. “.
However, according to the current application page, NASA is not affected by this, and still lists Taiwan as a country. The application is still listed as a country.
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