Lunar Mission One could be the most ambitious Kickstarter project ever. Alright, the second most ambitious after this. It’s a plan to send a craft to the Moon, and you can be part of it.
As we say, ambitious.
While you can’t climb aboard the craft, you can reserve your very own memory box for £60, to which you can upload pretty much anything. This will be buried in the Moon, and will be preserved for about a billion years. If there’s life out there, it will find your silly videos and selfies.
There’s also a public archive to the time capsule which will provide an authoritative record of life on earth.
It has the backing of science bigwigs like Professor Brian Cox, astronauts, Astronomer Royal Lord Martin Rees, and the UK Parliamentary Space Committee.
The project has been planned for seven years, with everyone giving up their evenings and weekends to work on it. It’s seeking £600,000 to make it a reality over the next three years.
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