From Moonshots to the Moon: Ben on the Season 1 Finale of Moonshot Radio

A podcast called Moonshot Radio… ending on the Moon. 🌕

I had the honor of joining Linda Du as the Season 1 finale guest on Moonshot Radio, a show for people who believe the future can be bigger, weirder, and better than what we've been told. Linda is an investor, founder, and adventurer, and her show explores the ideas, technologies, and unconventional thinkers shaping the world ahead. It was a conversation I won't forget.

The episode was recorded in San Diego during the Artemis II mission — with the crew later landing just off the same coast. There's something poetic about that: sitting in a studio talking about the Moon while astronauts were making their way back from it, splashing down in the waters nearby.

And fittingly, the conversation came full circle to what LifeShip has already accomplished. On March 2, 2025, we successfully landed a golden Pyramid on the Moon — a capsule containing seeds, human DNA, art, cultural archives, and a knowledge library of Earth. It's the first plant seed bank, the first DNA bank, and the first Pyramid that humans have ever placed on another celestial body.

What We Talked About

Linda and I dove deep into the questions at the heart of LifeShip's mission: What does it mean to preserve life beyond our planet? What kind of legacy should we be building as a species? And as we become multiplanetary, what values should we carry with us?

These aren't abstract questions anymore. We have a Pyramid on the Moon right now. We have missions in development to send archives to an asteroid and to drive on a rover across the lunar south pole. The era of humanity expanding beyond Earth isn't a future concept — it's the present moment. And with that comes a responsibility to think carefully about who we want to be out there.

We also talked about how LifeShip is building a community space movement — not just a company, but an open mission where anyone can contribute their DNA, their story, their art, and their vision to a collective record of life from Earth. It's about stewardship. It's about the commons. And it's about recognizing that the story of life on this planet belongs to all of us and is worth preserving for the deep future.

From Moonshots as an Idea… to the Moon as a Destination

What I loved about being on Moonshot Radio is the spirit of the show. "Moonshot" has become a word we use casually — a big idea, a bold bet. But for LifeShip, it's literal. We took a moonshot and landed it on the Moon. And we're doing it again.

There's a Pyramid sitting in Mare Crisium right now with the seeds of life, the stories of 100,000 people, and the complete human genome etched into ceramic that will last a billion years. That's not a metaphor. That's real. And it started with a dream and a community of people who believed it was worth doing.

Thank you to Linda for having me on and for creating a show that celebrates this kind of thinking. And thank you to everyone who's been part of the Season 1 journey with Moonshot Radio.

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