Your Photo Can Go To The Moon – First Lunar Time Capsule

A NASA-sponsored company, Astrobotic Technology, plans to launch a mission to the Moon in June, 2021. YouTuber Jimmy Donaldson, also known as MrBeast, has purchased space onboard for a hard drive, and for $10, your photo can go along.

At least 18 payloads expect to travel on the mission, including seven rovers from six countries, instruments from four countries, and other unusual payloads like the hard drive. The commercial space industry has truly arrived when a payload can fly just for fun (and maybe profit.) MrBeast proposes thinking of this as a time capsule. I have no idea who (if anyone) will be able to read the files in the future, but who knows, your photo might someday end up in the history section of a lunar colony’s museum.

I have no financial interest in this deal, and no idea how well (or even if) it will work out, but the shameless commercial plug follows: