gridlore: Doug looking off camera with a grin (Space -  Shuttle)
Douglas Berry ([personal profile] gridlore) wrote2006-08-12 09:32 am
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Better than any old monolith

Courtesy of [livejournal.com profile] wcg

An article on the family photo Charlie Duke left on the Moon

Astronauts left many items of personal significance on the lunar surface. The pilot wings of the Apollo 1 crew, golf balls, other things.

This makes me wonder.. what would you take? Assume that for whatever reason you are on the surface team of a lunar mission. You have a personal weight allowance of a few pounds and some time in your EVA for a personal moment. What do you leave on the lunar surface and why?

For me? A copy of the original Traveller would be the first item. The second is a bit more complex. I'd need a vial of water taken from off the Santa Cruz coast and a shipping tag from an air tank. The poem Requiem would be written on the tag. Because Robert Heinlein deserves a lunar burial.

[identity profile] gridlore.livejournal.com 2006-08-12 05:46 pm (UTC)(link)
Did you hit reply on the wrong post?

[identity profile] jarlsberg71.livejournal.com 2006-08-13 03:28 am (UTC)(link)
Of fsck! Too much blood in my alcohol system!