“Draw inspiration from past projects with present tools, while preparing the archeology of the future.” This is how engineer Benoit Faiveley describes his “Sanctuary on the Moon” project, consisting of engraving a large part of current human knowledge on 24 sapphire discs. They will fly to the moon in 2027 aboard NASA's Artemis mission.
The texts written on the discs will be accessible in around twenty languages including Inuktitut, and will also use mathematical symbols. The engineer, surrounded by scientists and supported by UNESCO, wishes to deliver a universalist message to our descendants, as well as to our contemporaries – and potentially to extra-terrestrial life forms.
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