After three tries beginning with a partnership with the SpaceIL Beresheet Lander crashing onto/into the moon in 2019, followed by Astrobotic’s aborted Peregrine lander earlier in 2024, the Arch Mission Foundation’s Lunar Library made a soft and safe landing on the moon. This time the Nova-C aka Odysseus lander was the carrier. And the plan succeeded!
As a long time Strategic Advisor to the Arch Mission Project, I was able to help with planning for the content and context of the Lunar Library including access to Project Gutenberg, Archive.org, the Rosetta Project, and other important collections. I’m delighted that the our planning of the payload has paid off. Also I was asked to make a contribution to the Library. An early version of the manuscript that would become Something Wonderful was my contribution.
If you look very very closely at the moon tonight, close to the South Pole, you may see Odysseus there. And within Odysseus, the Lunar Library. And within the Lunar Library, my manuscript. Or that’s what I like to believe.