The Moon's Junkyard Has a Gift Shop
There are roughly 3,000 human-made objects on the Moon — about 150 tons of hardware, trash, and souvenirs, almost all left without ceremony. But on a single square meter of regolith at Tranquility Base sit two artifacts with completely opposite design philosophies: an off-the-shelf nylon flag bought for five dollars and fifty cents, and a silicon disc etched with goodwill messages from 73 nations and four U.S. presidents, built to survive for thousands of years. This episode digs into the inventory, the frantic month-long rush to manufacture the disc at GCA Corporation and Sprague Electric…
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