A time capsule that is expected to survive for up to a billion years landed on the moon last week. The capsule contains music from a total of 222 musicians, which were installed in an archive of the lander “Odysseus”. Including a never-released song by Jimi Hendrix.
Music from numerous artists on the moon
The spacecraft became the first private lander to land on the moon on February 22nd. The managing director of the space company Space Blue, Dallas Santana, who had the idea for the time capsule, told “Billboard” that in addition to the Hendrix song, the capsule also contains 50,000 songs by Marvin Gaye, Santana, Chuck Berry, Sly & the Family, among others Stone and Bob Marley are included.
“Songs that have never been released – they’re on the moon now,” Santana said, suggesting that the Hendrix piece dates back to before he formed the Jimi Hendrix Experience. “The world will know about this.”
“We brought the ‘Summer of Love’ to the moon”
On July 20, 1969, humans set foot on the moon for the first time, and just a few weeks later the “Summer of Love” reached its peak when 460,000 people gathered at the Woodstock music festival, in a spirit of peaceful coexistence that this capsule commemorates should. Addressing the fact that NASA’s original lunar program coincided with the rise of the hippie movement, Santana said, “We need peace on Earth right now. We brought the ‘Summer of Love’ to the moon, the people, artists and messages that the Earth needs now.”
The entrepreneur hopes the time capsule – which also contains many non-musical achievements, including paintings by Rembrandt and Van Gogh – will “rekindle” the spirit of the Woodstock generation.
Also in the lunar archive is the highly acclaimed 2010 documentary “Climate Refugees.” Its director, Michael P. Nash, said: “In the event that we blow ourselves up with a nuclear weapon, a meteor will blow us up or climate change wipes us out, there is evidence of our history on the moon.”