This British company wants to crowdfund a mission to the moon

Described by its creators as “the most inspirational lunar project since the Apollo landings,” a new project on Kickstarter known as Lunar Mission One is looking for £600,000 ($940,000) in crowdfunding to send an unmanned robotic landing module to a completely unexplored area of the moon, according to CNET.

Even more interesting is the fact that the ambitious project also involves drilling down to a depth of at least 20 meters, potentially as far down as 100 meters, where the spacecraft will bury a digital time capsule which should be preserved for roughly a billion years due to the conditions at the South Pole of the moon.

The time capsule isn’t the primary goal of the mission, however, it’s merely one of the ways the company plans to fund the endeavor. The mission’s primary goal is to learn more about the origins of Earth’s closest celestial body. A minimum pledge of £60 ($94) is all that’s needed to get space in the digital time capsule.

“Lunar Mission One will make a huge contribution to our understanding of the origins of our planet and the moon, and will inspire a generation to learn more about space, science and engineering, in the same way that my generation was inspired by the Apollo moon landings,” said David Iron, founder of Lunar Missions, as quoted by Space.

“It is increasingly difficult to fund space science and exploration of the kind aimed at developing understanding and knowledge,” continued Iron, as quoted by The Guardian. “We are introducing a new form of funding, and if it works we’ll have a legacy that shows it’s possible to fund these missions very differently.”

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