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On February 18, 2021, NASA's Perseverance Rover successfully landed on Mars. The rover contains over 10 million names of people, including Marilyn Dorothy Hood Stark's name.
Attached to this post is the "boarding pass" issued by NASA as proof of the name's presence on the Rover.
Below is the information from NASA's Website (https://mars.nasa.gov/news/8634/109-million-names-now-aboard-nasas-perseverance-mars-rover/):
NASA's "Send Your Name to Mars" campaign invited people around the world to submit their names to ride aboard the agency's next rover to the Red Planet. Some 10,932,295 people did just that. The names were stenciled by electron beam onto three fingernail-sized silicon chips, along with the essays of the 155 finalists in NASA's "Name the Rover" contest. The chips were then were attached to an aluminum plate on NASA's Perseverance Mars rover at Kennedy Space Center in Florida on March 16. Scheduled to launch this summer, Perseverance will land at Jezero Crater on Feb. 18, 2021.
The three chips share space on the anodized plate with a laser-etched graphic depicting Earth and Mars joined by the star that gives light to both. While commemorating the rover that connects the two worlds, the simple illustration also pays tribute to the elegant line art of the plaques aboard the Pioneer spacecraft and golden records carried by Voyagers 1 and 2. Affixed to the center of the rover's aft crossbeam, the plate will be visible to cameras on Perseverance's mast.
