DHL MoonBox[1][2][3] was a mementos box that was launched to the Moon[4][5] on Astrobotic Technology's[6] Peregrine Lunar Lander in 2024. 151 MoonBox capsules, also known as "Moonpods", were made by DHL, each containing items intended to be shipped to the lunar surface. The capsules measured up to 1 inch wide and 2 inches high (2.5 by 5.1 cm), and contained items from the USA, UK, Canada, Nepal, Germany and Belgium. The items included stories written by children and a rock from Mount Everest. DHL also included a data stick which contained 100,000 images from those who responded to its "Who do you love to the moon and back?" campaign.[7][8][9]
Landing of the Peregrine on the moon was later abandoned due to a propellant leak. It re-entered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed on 18 January 2024.[10]
The payloads in the Moonbox include:
| Country | Name | Agency, company or person |
|---|---|---|
| 👁 Image USA |
Mora Moon Museum[11] | Project Mora |
| 👁 Image UK |
Anthony Henderson | |
| 👁 Image USA |
Gray Crater 1 | SWIRVRO |
| 👁 Image Canada |
The Lunar Codex[12] | Incandence |
| 👁 Image USA |
Conrad Moonwalker Drive[13] | The Conrad Foundation |
| 👁 Image USA |
I Need More Moon[14] | TJ Cooney |
| 👁 Image USA |
moon my name | Ian Sager |
| 👁 Image USA |
HopeMoonshot[15] | Pennsylvania State University |
| 👁 Image USA |
Digital Files[16] | Future Grind |
| 👁 Image Canada |
Moonstone[17] | Incandence |
| 👁 Image UK |
Astro Liz’s Lab Sticker[18] | Elizabeth Norman Astro Liz’s Lab |
| 👁 Image Belgium |
Belgium2theMoon Timecapsule[19] | Belgium2theMoon[20] |
| 👁 Image UK |
Apollo Remastered | Andy Saunders |
| 👁 Image Germany |
ToTheMoonWithDHL[21][22] | DHL |
| 👁 Image USA |
Kennywood Token[23][24][25] | Heinz History Center |
| 👁 Image USA |
International Library on the Moon | Writers on the Moon[26] |
| 👁 Image USA |
MoonBox | MrBeast[27] |
| 👁 Image Nepal |
Nepal Robotics payload[28] | Nepal Robotics Project |
| 👁 Image USA |
Consmith Capsule | Matthew Congrove |
| 👁 Image USA |
Dogecoin to the moon | Dogecoin |
| 👁 Image USA |
Interstellar Archive | Dominion Worldwide |
| 👁 Image USA |
u/Valphon[29] | |
| 👁 Image USA |
Howdy Bots - FRC #6377 | |
| 👁 Image USA |
Balko Public School | |
| 👁 Image USA |
Big Brothers Big Sisters of America | |
| 👁 Image UK |
Into the Red // PRE-SAVE TO THE MOON[30] | |
| 👁 Image USA |
Ohio PC Solutions[31] | |
| 👁 Image Canada |
2 the Moon! For Real[32] | |
| 👁 Image USA |
GadgetNate | |
| 👁 Image USA |
Civil Air Patrol and Cornell NanoScale Science and Technology Facility[33] | |
| 👁 Image USA |
The Earthling Project[34] | |
| 👁 Image UK |
Great Baddow High School | |
| 👁 Image Canada👁 Image USA |
Writers on the Moon: Stories by 133 authors | https://www.writersonthemoon.com |
| 👁 Image France |
VLC Lunar Time Capsule[35][36] | VLC media player |
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- ^ "Project Mora - Moon Museum". projectmora.com. Archived from the original on 8 January 2024. Retrieved 8 January 2024.
- ^ "The Lunar Codex". Incandence. Archived from the original on 31 March 2021. Retrieved 24 March 2021.
- ^ "MOON BOX". Conrad Challenge. Archived from the original on 2021-02-15. Retrieved 2021-03-29.
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- ^ "Hope Moonshot". Readiness Institute at Penn State. Archived from the original on 13 September 2025. Retrieved 6 February 2021.
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- ^ "Project Moonstone". Incandence. Archived from the original on 25 February 2021. Retrieved 24 February 2021.
- ^ "Astro Liz - A Guest Blog Post" (Press release). Astrobotic Technology. 26 November 2023. Archived from the original on 25 March 2025.
- ^ "BELGIUM 🌛2THE MOON". BELGIUM 🌛2THE MOON.
- ^ "Belgium2theMoon Timecapsule". Belgium2theMoon. Retrieved 2021-03-02.
- ^ "Love you to the Moon and back". DHL InMotion. Archived from the original on 20 July 2025.
- ^ Arakelian, Angelina Der (13 March 2021). "DHL is Now Sending Your Selfies to the Moon". Medium. Archived from the original on 13 March 2021.
- ^ Pickels, Mary (15 February 2019). "Pittsburghers vote to send Kennywood token to the moon". Pittsburgh Tribune-Review. Archived from the original on 31 May 2025.
- ^ Mericle, Julia (15 February 2019). "Kennywood Park token to be sent to the moon". Pittsburg Business Times. Retrieved 2 May 2021.
{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link) - ^ Mervis, Scott (15 February 2019). "Pittsburghers will send a Kennywood token to the moon". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Archived from the original on 2020-11-07.
- ^ "A ragtag fleet of stories for a lunar time capsule". Writers on the Moon. Archived from the original on 26 December 2025. Retrieved 22 February 2021.
- ^ Andrew Parsonson (2021-01-24). "YouTuber MrBeast purchases space aboard NASA-sponsored Astrobotic Moon mission". Rocket Rundown. Archived from the original on January 24, 2021. Retrieved 2021-02-06.
- ^ "From Drones at Everest to Robots on the Moon!". Nepal Robotics Project. 9 October 2018. Archived from the original on 9 January 2026.
- ^ "You can send something to the Moon, for free! I'm creating a Lunar time capsule via Reddit - Sending up to 10mb of data to the Moon for up to 100,000 people!". Valphon. 26 January 2021. Archived from the original on 28 March 2025 – via Reddit.
- ^ Cumber, Robert (10 March 2021). "Sheffield band's new single set to blast off to the Moon". The Star. Archived from the original on 22 January 2024.
- ^ "Moonbox". Ohio PC Solutions. 22 October 2020. Archived from the original on 8 September 2025.
- ^ "Project Overview". Xrp Chat. 27 July 2017. Archived from the original on 28 March 2023.
- ^ "More than 27,000 Civil Air Patrol Names Headed to the Moon" (Press release). Cornell NanoScale Science and Technology Facility. 25 February 2021. Archived from the original on 11 January 2024.
- ^ Rodríguez, Ana Mónica (3 January 2021). "Enviarán al espacio un mensaje musical formado por cerca de 10 mil voces" [They will send into space a musical message made up of about 10,000 voices]. La Jornada (in Mexican Spanish). Archived from the original on 3 December 2024.
- ^ Ondet, Geoffroy (9 February 2021). "Pour ses 20 ans, VLC vous propose d'envoyer votre vidéo préférée sur la Lune" [To celebrate its 20th anniversary, VLC invites you to send your favorite video to the Moon]. 01net (in French). Archived from the original on 12 December 2025. Retrieved 4 February 2025.
- ^ Lausson, Julien (9 February 2021). "Pourquoi VLC va envoyer un faux cône de chantier sur la Lune" [Why VLC is going to send a fake traffic cone to the Moon]. Numerama (in French). Archived from the original on 8 July 2025. Retrieved 4 February 2025.
External links
[edit]- Astrobotic - MoonBox Archived 2021-04-13 at the Wayback Machine