Only a handful are lucky enough to be selected by NASA for their yearly astronaut program, however, artists or art enthusiasts will now be able to send their artworks, songs or poems to a lone asteroid. 

NASA just announced that the public will be able to send artworks to an asteroid, that will be onboard the space agency's newest spacecraft, the OSIRIS-REx (Origins Spectral Interpretation Resource Identification Security-Regolith Explorer).

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This probe will also become the first one to collect a sample from as asteroid and bring it back to Earth for further analysis.

The OSIRIS-REx spacecraft is scheduled to launch in September where it will journey to the asteroid known as Bennu which is short for 101955 Bennu, to collect around 2 ounces of material from this orbiting space rock which will then return to Earth in 2023.

Formerly known as Asteroid 2012 DA14, Bennu recently passed by the planet some 22,000 miles in February 2013. NASA says that this was a really close distance for an asteroid travelling near Earth's neighborhood, which is less that 1/10th of the moon's distance from Earth.

This flying space rock is measured 492 meters in diameter which almost, always zips by dangerously close to our world every six years. NASA scientists also believe that there is also a high chance that Bennu will make impact on our planet in 2182, which is very crucial for this mission. But why still send art to a doomsday asteroid that can leave a catastrophic impact to Earth?

According to OSIRIS-REx project scientist, Jason Dworkin from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, by developing this kind of spacecraft and its onboard suite of scientific instruments, this has been also a creative process for mission scientists where the ultimate canvas of this probe became the machined metal and composites for the September launch. It is just fitting that this endeavor can also inspire the public to express their creativity that OSRIS-REx can deliver into space.

According to the NASA artwork for Bennu invitation, the submission can be anything from a sketch, photograph, graphic poem, short video or song, or pretty much anything that can express artistic inspiration about being an explorer.

Deadline for artwork submissions will be on March 20, which will also join 442,000 names that will be submitted, from NASA's "Messages to Bennu" campaign last 2014.