The Arch Mission Foundation , a non-profit organization that aims to help humanity preserve and spread its knowledge, is planning to send its own private ship to the Moon in year 2020 .
The ship will be loaded with small laser-engraved discs the size of a coin, these will store the so-called "Lunar Library" that the organization is putting together with all kinds of content to preserve the cultural heritage of humanity, including the entire Wikipedia .
In addition to the huge database of Wikipedia, the library will also have a compilation of languages of humanity and a variety of other content to be announced later. The equivalent of millions of pages of text and images.
According to the foundation, these data will probably be preserved for billions of years on the lunar surface . The ship, which has been created by Astrobotic Technology and called Peregrine , will also be the first commercial mission to the Moon.
Thanks to this space mission, the content of Wikipedia will be preserved for billions of years on the Moon
Nova Spivack, co-founder and president of Arch Mission Foundation said that they think of the lunar bookstore as the ultimate cold storage for human civilization, because now we can preserve the cultural heritage and biological record of humanity in a way impossible in the past.
Leaving aside the technological challenge, the importance of the project, and the fascinating advances in both storage and the different space missions, it is more than remarkable how Wikipedia has become such an important and prominent reference on the knowledge and culture of humanity , so much that it will end up in space along with the rest of the most important information about our existence.