Galactic Legacy Archive (Intuitive Machines, 2024)

Legacy Across the Galaxy.

The Galactic Legacy Archive On February, 22, 2024, the Lunar Library, Galactic Legacy Archive, was successfully landed on the Moon by Intuitive Machines, launched by SpaceX, with assistance from Galactic Legacy Labs Lunaprise mission.

The Galactic Legacy Archive is a  nanofiche artifact comprised of many layers of etchings and digital data in nickel, includes many special Content sections including the English Wikipedia, content from the Long Now Foundation Rosetta Project and the Panlex data sets, the SETI Institute’s Earthling Project, the Arch Mission Private Library, David Copperfield’s Magic secrets, and the Arch Lunar Art Archive, among other collections. No DNA archives or tardigrades are included.

The data in the archive is preserved as Nanofiche in 16 layers of nickel, combining both nano-scale analog images that can be viewed with a microscope and digital data in DVD format. The content also includes analog format information from the Arch Mission Foundation with  instructions for understanding and recovering the data, along with translations to all known languages. This archival storage system was designed to preserve information in case of nuclear war and can also preserve information in the harsh environment of space and on the Moon.

Across two locations on the Moon there are now 41 layers of analog and digital content from the Lunar Library.

It is projected that the Lunar Library may reside on the Moon for up to 5 billion years.

Included as a dedication to this mission is this message: