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2016 · Matt Hoerl, Nick Slavin, Nova Spivack

The Arch Mission Foundation creates ultra-durable archives that preserve humanity’s most important knowledge and distributes them across the solar system. Our mission is to back up Earth by encoding human civilization into indestructible memory storage devices designed to last billions of years. Our first archive launched aboard SpaceX’s inaugural Falcon Heavy flight, stored inside Elon Musk’s cherry-red Tesla Roadster which will orbit around the sun for millions of years. Since then, we’ve completed five additional missions, including three to the Moon. The first lunar archive, called The Lunar Library, launched aboard SpaceIL’s Beresheet lander. A flight spare of this is permanently displayed at the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum.