New book to be preserved for 1 million years on the moon

By Doug Shields

A new book is to be immortalized by being blasted to the moon on a rocket — where it will be preserved for a million years.

Samantha Tauber's futuristic novel will be saved onto a space-age storage capsule and launched on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket in July.

The "NanoFiche" device is made of nickel and plated with 24K gold, which can withstand the extreme lunar environment.

It will be transported to the lunar surface aboard a lander pod that will be blasted from the Falcon rocket when in the moon's orbit.

Samantha, 30, who is also a singer-songwriter, said: “I cried when I was told my book was going to the moon.

“It was an incredible feeling. It was really emotional. My parents also cried tears of joy. Hopefully we will all be able to get to the launch at Cape Canaveral.

“Seeing my book being blasted off into space will be a surreal feeling.”

Samantha penned the sci-fi adventure “VNCCII: The Awakening of a Divine Warrior” when her gigs dried up during COVID-19.

She began making a name for herself as an artist, music producer, metaverse games engine storyteller and live performer.

She was then approached by Nick Searra of the Interstellar Foundation, a nonprofit organization dedicated to designing and sending human artifacts beyond Earth.

Searra is among a team of academics, explorers and scientists working on an updated “Golden Record” for NASA’s next interstellar mission.

Through Nick, Samantha met Bruce Ha, who created NanoFiche.

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In July 2024, Bruce asked Samantha if he could send her book, “VNCCII: The Awakening of a Divine Warrior,” to the moon.

The 10-inch capsule will be transported from the Falcon 9 rocket to the lunar surface aboard the Griffin-1 Lander Mission.

The text and images from the book are laser-etched onto the NanoFiche so precisely it can be read under a microscope.

Designed to withstand radiation and extreme lunar conditions, it will form part of a “museum of humanity” that is expected to last a million years on the surface of the moon.

Samantha, who is Australian but now lives in London, said: “It’s about how we're one human family.

“But this story kind of goes really deep, like an internal exploration.”

Bruce Ha said he felt “VNCCII: The Awakening of a Divine Warrior” was the perfect choice to be sent to the moon.

And he added: “My mission has always been trying to put knowledge on the moon. Samantha explained to me there's more to humanity than just pure knowledge.

“People who see Samantha’s work in the future, they will know our knowledge was much more than just a mastery of a bunch of photons and electrons. They will know we also have feelings; we have love, we have all that.

“I knew we needed to publish this and that we needed to publish this in a very different way.

“So, this is really a way to store humanity's knowledge forever."