{"id":11492,"date":"2015-09-30T15:21:34","date_gmt":"2015-09-30T19:21:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=11492"},"modified":"2015-09-30T15:21:34","modified_gmt":"2015-09-30T19:21:34","slug":"lunar-mission-one-and-astrobotic-will-take-put-your-footsteps-on-the-moon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=11492","title":{"rendered":"Lunar Mission One and Astrobotic will take put your “Footsteps on the Moon”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lunar Mission One<\/a>\u00a0is a non-profit organization seeking to raise\u00a0public funding for\u00a0space science projects<\/a>. Their primary space science goal is to put a robotic spacecraft\u00a0on the south pole of the Moon in 2024 to investigate water and other resources there. A Kickstarter campaign<\/a> in 2014 raised over $1M.<\/p>\n

They have a number of public involvement initiatives programs underway. This week, for example, they opened the\u00a0Footsteps on the Moon<\/a><\/em>\u00a0campaign in which you upload “a photo of your footprints, feet or shoes” that will be sent to the Moon on digital storage.<\/p>\n

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The transport to the Moon will be via Astrobotic<\/a>‘s lunar lander mission:\u00a0Lunar Mission One Signs Deal with Astrobotic<\/a><\/p>\n

Astrobotic Technology Inc. and Lunar Missions Ltd, the company behind the global, inclusive, not-for- profit crowd-funded Lunar Mission One, have signed a deal to send the first digital storage payload to the Moon. The payload will support Lunar Mission One\u2019s \u2018Footsteps on the Moon<\/a>\u2019 campaign, launched earlier today, which invites millions of people to include their footsteps \u2013 in addition to images, video and music \u2013 in a digital archive of human life that will be placed on the moon during Astrobotic\u2019s first lunar mission.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cThe partnership with Lunar Mission One is an exciting opportunity for individuals to store memorable information on the surface of the Moon,\u201d says John Thornton, CEO of Astrobotic. \u201cThis is the first step in creating an archive of human civilization beyond Earth orbit.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

David Iron, CEO of Lunar Missions Ltd and the founder of Lunar Mission One says, \u201cIt was an easy choice to partner with Astrobotic, a global leader in commercial lunar capability. This deal allows us to offer an exciting new way to connect our supporters to the Moon during the early phase of Lunar Mission One\u2019s development. We look forward to unveiling those plans very soon.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Lunar Mission One is the latest addition to Astrobotic\u2019s mission one manifest<\/a>, and will be the first payload to enable a digital archive on the Moon.<\/em><\/p>\n

David Iron, the founder of Lunar Mission One, writes the organization and the Footsteps program:\u00a0Lunar Mission One: “Let’s All Stand on the Moon Together” –\u00a0David Iron\/Huffington Post<\/a><\/p>\n

Most people watching the Moon landings in 1969 thought they would never make it to the Moon… but it’s time for a re-think. The astronauts left their prints and the rest of us just dreamed, but Lunar Mission One<\/a> now intends to make it possible with their\u00a0Footsteps on the Moon<\/a> project.<\/em><\/p>\n

We have secured a digital payload on the Astrobotic Moon Lander, slated for a 2017 launch. On it, we want to take a vast collection of pictures of your footsteps, shoes, wheelchair tracks or however you leave your impression on the Earth, and place them on the Moon. And we will do that for nothing in the hopes that we can take images from every single country on Earth.<\/em><\/p>\n

In digital form, your footsteps will rest on the Moon, like the iconic boot prints left by the first astronauts, almost 50 years ago.<\/em><\/p>\n

Follow the latest LMO activities at\u00a0Lunar Mission One (@LunarMissionOne) | Twitter<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Lunar Mission One\u00a0is a non-profit organization seeking to raise\u00a0public funding for\u00a0space science projects. Their primary space science goal is to put a robotic spacecraft\u00a0on the south pole of the Moon in 2024 to investigate water and other resources there. A Kickstarter campaign in 2014 raised over $1M. They have a number of public involvement initiatives … Continue reading Lunar Mission One and Astrobotic will take put your “Footsteps on the Moon”<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,13,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-participation","category-space-science","category-the-moon"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-2Zm","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3839,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=3839","url_meta":{"origin":11492,"position":0},"title":"Ares Institute seeks to crowd-fund a solar sail project","author":"TopSpacer","date":"August 7, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"News from Ares Institute of a\u00a0Kickstarter campaign to fund a lunar solar sail\u00a0: For the first time, a solar sail powered spacecraft will orbit another celestial body. 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