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Lunaprise to preserve humanity’s legacy on the Moon

Credits: Lunaprise

Lunaprise has contracted with Intuitive Machines in partnership with NASA and SPACEX to place a permanent repository of human information on the Moon. The time capsule will be delivered via Intuitive Machines’ NOVA-C lander on their 2021 flight to the Ocean of Storms. Using patented nanotechnology, the Lunaprise team is able to etch messages from one million Earth Ambassadors on a pure nickle nanofiche capable of withstanding radiation and extreme temperatures on the Moon for millions of years.

You can leave a “Lunagram” helping to create a legacy of our civilization by memorializing your life story in a lunar archive. This is your opportunity to participate in humanity’s plan B in case of an Earth catastrophe, or even if we settle space, to leave a permanent record for the ages.

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Intuitive Machine’s PRIME-1 ice mining drill to be delivered to the Moon by 2022

Illustration of Intuitive Machines’ Lunar Lander. Credits: Intuitive Machines

As part of the Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) initiative, NASA has selected Intuitive Machines to deliver ice harvesting equipment called Polar Resources Ice Mining Experiment (PRIME-1) to the Moon’s south pole. In a press release from yesterday, Intuitive stated that the instrument package includes a drill to excavate ice ladened regolith and a mass spectrometer to characterize the volatiles, the data from which will be used by the VIPER mission to follow shortly thereafter. Knowing how much water is available and how accessible it is will inform subsequent in situ resource utilization efforts needed for sustainable human outposts planned for later this decade.