This may seem pointless to some, and important to others:
NASA is sending a new much bigger and complex Mars science lab rover named "Curiosity" to Mars in 2011, arriving in 2012.
It will have a small chip in it, and NASA is putting peoples names on the chip.
No data collection, no Email gathering, no trouble. Just your name, on a chip, on Mars.
http://marsprogram.jpl.nasa.gov/