This Organization Is Putting A ‘Library’ On The Moon

This organization wants to create a library on the moon, with millions of pages of information as well as thousands of human languages.

“The Arch Mission Foundation is an organization that has a mission to spread humanity’s important cultural heritage and biological record throughout vast distances in time and space, to preserve who we are and what we are and to send a message to people in the distant future,” explained the foundation’s co-founder Nova Spivack.

The Arch Mission Foundation announced on May 15, 2018 its plants to create the “Lunar Library,” a trove of human knowledge and culture located on the moon. According to the foundation, the library will consist of 25 to 30 million pages of Wikipedia entries and a digital library of 1,6000 human languages from the Now Foundation’s “Rosetta Project.”

The Lunar Library is slated to take off in 2020, as one of the various payloads on commercial space company Astrobotic’s Peregrine Lunar Lander. The content will be stored using “nickel microfiche” tech, which will keep the library from cosmic rays and dust for billions of years.

The foundation’s first space library, which contains Isaac Asimov’s “Foundation” trilogy, launched with the Tesla Roadster in February 2018.