The touring exhibit of #LunarCodex artists from Poland arrives at Washington D.C.!

The #LunarCodex - a look back at 2025

Trajectory for Artemis II. Onboard the Orion spacecraft will be NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch, and Canadian Space Agency (CSA) Astronaut Jeremy Hansen. Launch is estimated for NET February 6, 2026. The #LunarCodex project is onboard, with CODEX RIGEL. Excelsior!

THE LUNAR CODEX - Status update 17-Dec-2025

THE ART SIDE OF THE MOON - the #LunarCodex documentary - is an Official Selection of the Canada Shorts Film Festival 2025, and a Finalist for Best Documentary!

🌎🚀🌙 On 29-Nov-2022, on the Artemis I mission, the Orion spacecraft reached its maximum distance from Earth - 432,210 km The #LunarCodex collection Codex Orion, on a memory card onboard, contained a poem about the Moon, archived later via other missions to the lunar surface. ___ Image credit NASA

I'm holding one of the very first Cerabyte ceramic-on-glass media samples, preserving a copy of the U.S. Constitution Cerabyte’s durable ceramic media enables unlimited data preservation and with zero maintenance, energy or media migration to retain the data.

The Art Renewal Center has the finalists in the 18th Int'l ARC Salon Competition. > www.artrenewal.org/Salon/Finalists 816 works have been selected as finalists. I'm honored to have been one of the judges for this competition. Final results will be posted 5-Jan-2026.

Astrobotic's Griffin Mission One - with the FLIP rover primary cargo, and carrying the Lunar Codex's Polaris archive via GLPH and MoonBox - has been delayed to its next viable launch window, no earlier than (NET) July 2026. More details via the link --> spaceflightnow.com/2025/10/28/a...

My TEDx Talk on the #LunarCodex is up on the official channel! > www.youtube.com/watch?v=DzX6... Please share the link far and wide 🙏 TO THE MOON AND BEYOND How to Get to the Moon in Five Easy Steps by Dr. Samuel Peralta #tedx #tedxtalks #tedxspeaker #ted #tedtalks

The #LunarCodex commissioned literary anthology SEA OF TRANQUILITY will be in the spotlight at the 30th Poets House Showcase, on Dec 13, 2025!

Astrobotic's Griffin-1 continues its progress toward delivering Astrolab’s FLIP rover, its own CubeRover, and other payloads to the Moon. Key milestones have been propulsion and avionics integration, software simulations and payload readiness testing. ___ Photo via Astrobotic Technology

MOON SHOT: THE STORY OF THE LUNAR CODEX* by Samuel Peralta So this is happening... I'm 8,000 words into what's planned to be an 80K-word narrative non-fiction on our shared journey from Earth, to the Moon, and beyond. Wish me luck. ___ *Just a working title 🙂

MANIFEST FOR THE MOON - the art book of selected work from the #LunarCodex - is here! Here's the link if you haven't ordered your copy yet: > shop.snap-collective.com/products/man... ___ Proceeds support publication of new artist monographs. The Lunar Codex makes no revenues from this venture.

THE ART SIDE OF THE MOON - the #LunarCodex documentary - is an Official Selection of the 20th Annual Rocket City Short Film Festival! The film chronicles the #LunarCodex as it pursues an ambitious quest to store the largest global collection of contemporary art on the Moon.

If you're in the area, come see #LunarCodex laureate Bernice Shaller's exhibit "Between Worlds" open this weekend through October 25!

NASA’s VIPER mission to search for water on the Moon was originally slated to launch with Astrobotic's Griffin mission, but was pulled back. NASA has now announced its intent to award a CLPS contract to Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin to potentially deliver VIPER to the Moon’s south pole in late 2027.

Top perspective of Astrobotic's Griffin lunar lander carrying Astrolab's FLIP rover. The #LunarCodex Polaris archives, enclosed in a MoonBox/GLPH canister, will be bolted to the external structure of the Griffin lander, and should be visible from one of its cameras __ Via Astrobotic / Astrolab

The Sept 20-27 launch window opens for Canada's first commercial rocket launch. This historic launch represents a giant leap forward for Canadian sovereignty, prosperity, and security, as well as for assured access to space. ___ Image credit NordSpace

"Under the breath a wingbeat of birds" by Sam Peralta Acrylic on canvas, 2023 14" x 14" See this and other works on Artsy > www.artsy.net/artist/sam-p... The title and the encoded line in the painting form a poetic couplet. Art inspired by Mondrian, smartphone tech, and poetry.

This is the SpaceX Falcon Heavy launch vehicle It is the platform that will carry the Astrobotic Griffin lander - and #LunarCodex cultural payloads onboard - into Earth orbit, the first milestone on its journey to the Moon #LunarCodex #MissionSix #Polaris #ToTheMoonAndBeyond

Yes, dial-up is still a thing. But only until Sept 30, 2025. That's when AOL is finally pulling the plug. apnews.com/article/aol-...

The Art Renewal Center (ARC) has announced the semi-finalists to the 18th International ARC Salon! See the list here > www.artrenewal.org/Salon/SemiFi... Finalists to be posted on Nov 5, and final results on Jan 5, 2026. Congratulations to all and good luck in the finals!

"Let me ravish you as spring's love" by Sam Peralta Acrylic on canvas 14" x 14" This and other works available via Artsy > www.artsy.net/artist/sam-p... The title and the encoded line in the painting form a poetic couplet, in a piece built on elements of neoplasticism.

Dr. Samuel Peralta holding a nickel NanoFiche disc, which can contain thousands of images of art or text, and can last a billion years on the Moon. It is one of the key technologies used in Dr. Peralta's #LunarCodex project. > www.lunarcodex.com ___ Image credit Lance McMillan / Toronto Star

Artist's rendition of Astrolab's FLIP rover after having exited off of the Astrobotic Griffin lunar lander in the lunar south pole region. Griffin is carrying payloads from the #LunarCodex Launch expected no earlier than (NET) December 2025 ___ Image credit Astrobotic / Astrolab

The story so far.

iO Donna talks with artist Tara Shakti about her beautiful art, giving voice to women's issues, and becoming a laureate of the #LunarCodex collection of humanity's art on the Moon. iO Donna is the weekly women's magazine and Saturday supplement of the Italian daily newspaper Corriere della Sera.

Just approved for production: the fully-embroidered #LunarCodex primary mission patch. This first batch goes out with the pre-orders of the art book MANIFEST FOR THE MOON by Charlotte Müller and myself. > shop.snap-collective.com/products/man...

The Moonbox-GLPH assembly holding the POLARIS collection of the #LunarCodex, just before integration with the Griffin Lunar Lander. Let's go, Griffin Mission One! ___ Thanks to our partners Astrobotic and NanoFiche for the images!

In a few short months, Astrobotic Technology's Griffin lander is scheduled to launch from Earth to the Moon. Among its varied payloads will be Astrolab's FLIP rover. The #LunarCodex is proud to be part of this historic mission with its Polaris archive! ___ Video credit Astrobotic Technology

Enlarged view of section of AstroGLPH disk destined for Astrobotic's Griffin lunar lander, showing one section of the #LunarCodex. The #LunarCodex archives comprise 250,000+ artifacts, from over 50,000 creatives, representing every country and territory on Earth. #ToTheMoonAndBeyond

Very pleased to have received this small bronze sculpture by Oceana Rain Stuart, which came with the 'Enigma' book - a bonus for those who pre-ordered the book! The original is captured on a Nanofiche image in the #LunarCodex's Nova archive, which successfully landed on March 6, 2025 on the Moon.

Reverse view of one of the large AstroGLPH disks for the Astrobotic Griffin lander, showing the data layer containing #LunarCodex archives. The AstroGLPH collection comprises ~80,000 cultural pieces. The #LunarCodex collection, including archive in two MoonBoxes, comprises over 250,000 artifacts.

The final AstroGLPH payload for the Astrobotic Griffin lunar lander, by primary partners Astrobotic, NanoFiche, and the #LunarCodex. Apart from the our MoonBox collection - and with our other partners - the AstroGLPH collection of ~80,000 pieces of art, documents, and memories begins its journey.

🌎🚀🌙 The primary mission patch of the #LunarCodex, as etched on Astrobotic Technology's AstroGLPH archive using Nanofiche technology. Thank you all for bringing your art into the world for the present and for the future!

🌎🚀🌙 Representing the #LunarCodex, I've been invited to participate in the Open Lunar Foundation. Open Lunar works towards a peaceful, enduring presence on the Moon, by establishing standards, laws, norms, and essential infrastructure that will enable a sustainable lunar future.

Four #LunarCodex nickel-based nanofiche discs, each only 12-mm in diameter. These four discs contain thousands of poems and art from all over the globe. The #LunarCodex includes scores of such discs in its archives. #ToTheMoonAndBeyond #ToTheFutureAndBeyond

🌎🚀🌙 Isaac Asimov's "Foundation" on a nickel-based nanofiche disc the size of a quarter. Nanofiche is one of the key technologies - along with Quartz Nanochips, Chromafiche, semiconductor memory, and metal discs - used in the #LunarCodex archives.

🌎🚀🌙 #LunarCodex explainer by ArkivDAO. Since this film was made in 2023, the Codex has expanded to include over 50,000 creative artists from 262 nations and territories, and an additional 149 Indigenous nations.

A Quartz Nanochip on a fingertip - one of the several billion-year archival technologies in the #LunarCodex. Alongside other archival materials, the #LunarCodex's Quartz Nanochip archives will ensure that something of humanity will endure into the next millennium

#LunarCodex includes quartz nanochips Semiconductor processes etching letters onto quartz at 3x3 µm in size, 500 nm spacing, readable via a 2000x microscope: ~3.5 million letters of text on a 9x9 mm chip With other technologies, the #LunarCodex's quartz nanochips ensure that humanity will endure

THE ART SIDE OF THE MOON - the #LunarCodex documentary - is screening at the SFC Film Festival, Aug 9, at the Dendy Cinemas Canberra (Cinema 3) in Australia! 🎟️ Get your tickets here --> events.humanitix.com/2025-sfc-fil...

🌎🌙 “Houston, Tranquility Base here. The Eagle has landed.” 🧑‍🚀 On July 20, 1969, that was the message from Apollo 11 on the Moon. 🌑 The #LunarCodex celebrates International Moon Day and all of the creatives who journeyed with us back to the Moon, with our art, our stories, our music. 🍁 Excelsior!

THE SEA OF TRANQUILITY paperback = commissioned by the #LunarCodex - is 82% off at Amazon.com today... Get it now, and let's push it up the charts! (Psst, If you already have a paperback copy, grab another one to gift to a friend! You can't go wrong at $2.20.) www.amazon.com/gp/product/0...

I know folks have been waiting for the video for my TEDx Talk - TO THE MOON AND BEYOND - but it isn't quite ready for prime time yet. While we're waiting, here are some selected photos from the TEDx Mosaic event, organized in a dedicated page on the #LunarCodex website - > www.lunarcodex.com/tedx

At the 2025 Portland Festival of Cinema, Animation, and Technology, THE ART SIDE OF THE MOON, the #LunarCodex documentary, is nominated for Best Documentary Short! Congratulations to the cast and crew, and to all the #LunarCodex artists whose dreams are reflected in this amazing film. Excelsior!