A lunar ladder which contains digitised recordings of songs from Elvis Presley, Jimi Hendrix, The Who, Pink Floyd and more, have landed on the moon.
For the first time, a private lander arrived on the moon, thanks to the historic landing of the Odysseus spacecraft. It is also the first American craft to land on the moon since 1972.
Other artists who appear in this collection also include Santana, Marvin Gaye, Bob Marley, Janis Joplin, Timbaland, Chuck Berry, and Sly & the Family Stone.
It will also include photos of music events such as Woodstock, and album art like Pink Floyd’s ‘Dark Side Of The Moon’.
“testament to our history”
This lander brought a time capsule to the moon, which contained various arts-centric artefacts. It also includes a documentary, titled Climate Refugees, by Michael P Nash.
“In case we blow ourselves up with a nuclear weapon or a meteor hits us or climatic change wipes us out, there’s a testament of our history sitting on the moon”, he said.
Dallas Santana who came up with the idea of sending artists music to the moon, revealed that some of the material going up there, has not even been released on earth yet.
“Songs that have never been released, ever — they’re on the moon now”, Santana said. “The world will find out about them”.
Santana also revealed that he had specifically chosen music from the year 1969, as well as artists who played in Woodstock that year for a reason.
That same year, also saw humans descend on the moon for the first time. He also added that he hopes this time capsule will bring the same sense of peace and togetherness.
“NASA doesn’t know – SpaceX doesn’t know yet,” he said.
“Elon Musk is the greatest rocketeer of all time, we’re grateful for his company. When we decided to have conversations about musicians last year, we thought it was not appropriate to bring to it to his attention what we were going to do. And musicians were concerned about that. They said, ‘Does Elon Musk have anything to do with deciding what musicians go up there?’ And I said, ‘Absolutely not, this is a private payload”.
This capsule came in a glass, nickel, and NanoFiche structure which is built to last millions of, if not billions of years.
