A tiny biological sample from India may have already made it to the Moon ahead of the Chandrayaan 2.
Beresheet:
In February, an Israeli lunar lander called Beresheet (Hebrew for ‘the beginning’) began its journey to the Moon aboard a SpaceX rocket in its quest to be the first privately-funded spacecraft to land on the Moon.
A month later Beresheet crash-landed and was irredeemably broken except, for a payload called the Lunar Library.
Lunar Library:
The Lunar Library is a 30 million page archive of human history and civilisation, covering all subjects, cultures, nations, languages, genres, and time periods. In the event of human extinction, it’s meant to be a ‘backup ‘ of earth-life.
The Lunar Library contained a small sample from the Bodhi tree in India, along with material on learning Hindi, Urdu and information on music.
It was conceived by the Arch Mission Foundation (AMF), a U.S.-based nonprofit whose mission is to create repositories of human civilisation and spread them through space.
It is believed that the Lunar Library survived the crash of Beresheet and is intact on the Moon.
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