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If the bean counters at NASA read "Buy Jupiter!" by Isaac Asimov they'd already have the solution at hand. Ok, building flying billboards is still a bit hard, but advertising is the point. What about sending probes and ships named after the highest bidder name/company? Of course they would have also a name for the scientific community and those of us who would never ever accept saying "Coca Cola has landed on Mars".


Just doing sponsors like in auto racing would go a long ways.

"Mobile 1 the official grease of $a_bearing_on_mars!!!!" is pretty damn good advertising.




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