Successful launch! We are on our way to the Moon!

We are on our way to the Moon! 🚀🌙 It’s almost surreal, we've launched a Pyramid to space! 

A rocket launch is thrilling and watching LifeShip's Launch Party with the community, partners, artists, entrepreneurs, and creators who have contributed to this mission was truly special.

Together we've establishing a Pyramid on the Moon, a monument to Earth's life and human creativity.

Blast Off

Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost lunar lander lifted-off on January 15, 2025 from the Kennedy Space Center launch complex 39A at 1:11 am EST.

LifeShip community member Steve Madow attended the launch and captured these amazing images.  

Launch photos beautifully captured by LifeShip community member Steve Madow 📸 (www.stevenmadow.com). 

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Blue Ghost’s Journey to the Moon
Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost lunar lander is officially on its way! After weeks of apogee-raising orbits around Earth, a successful Trans-Lunar Injection burn on February 8th propelled Blue Ghost out of Earth’s orbit and toward the Moon.

🛰️ The lander is now in a four-day transit to lunar orbit, where it will spend about 16 days before beginning its descent. The historic lunar landing is set for March 2nd—stay tuned, we'll watch it together!

We’re receiving awe-inspiring images and videos of Earth and the Moon. This journey is unfolding beautifully, and we can’t wait to share more with you.

We’re on the way to the Moon together!

Firefly's Blue Ghost lander sees Earth eclipse moon in amazing time-lapse from space
Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost lunar lander sees Earth eclipse the Moon (Credit: Firefly Aerospace and VideoFromSpace).

Our home planet as seen by Blue Ghost (Credit: Firefly Aerospace).

This image is reminiscent of the iconic Blue Marble photograph, captured by the Apollo 17 crew in 1972. Often credited with inspiring the modern environmental movement, it gave people a profound sense of the Overview Effect—the realization that Earth is a single, fragile world, where borders are mere constructs and all life is deeply interconnected. 🌍✨

Thinking of the Blue Marble image also brings to mind the Pale Blue Dot—another profound image that forever changed our perspective on Earth’s place in the cosmos.

Pale Blue Dot, a photograph of Earth taken by the Voyager 1 spacecraft (Credit: NASA / JPL).

The Pale Blue Dot photograph was taken by NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft on February 14, 1990, at a distance of about 3.7 billion miles (6 billion kilometers) from Earth. At the request of astronomer Carl Sagan, the spacecraft turned its camera back toward home, capturing Earth as a tiny speck of light—a mere fraction of a pixel, suspended in a sunbeam.

I often revisit Carl Sagan’s words—they serve as a constant reminder of our place in the cosmos. His reflections on the Pale Blue Dot were a deep inspiration for LifeShip’s mission: to expand life beyond Earth while honoring the planet that gave us birth.

Pale Blue Dot by Carl Sagan

"Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there--on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner, how frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds.
Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves.
The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand.
It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known."

— Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot, 1994
 
 

Carl Sagan’s words serve as a profound reminder of our shared existence on this tiny world, adrift in the vastness of space. They challenge us to see beyond borders, beyond differences, and recognize our deep responsibility to cherish and protect this fragile home.

A Monument to Life & Creativity

As a community, we are placing a Pyramid on the Moon—a first-of-its-kind off-world seed bank and archive of human creativity. A monument dedicated to life from Earth.

Throughout history, great civilizations have built pyramids, leaving behind stories, legacies, and mysteries for future generations. Entire societies came together to create them, shaping the course of history.

Now, we will have created a Pyramid on the Moon. It may be small, but it carries an immense amount of information about our civilization and planet—the seeds of life, stories, art, and culture. LifeShip is a community-powered mission, created with heart, in service to all life, creativity, and the future of the Universe.

Imagine the pyramid builders of ancient times looking up at the Moon, dreaming of a pyramid among the stars. Now, we are making that dream real—together. Thank you for being part of this incredible journey. Our ancestors would be proud of what this LifeShip community has accomplished together. 
 

The Pyramid on the Moon by LifeShip and some of the contents (Credit: LifeShip).

 
What’s Next?

We’re just getting started! 🌟 We have more exciting missions coming up!

• Want to engage more with the LifeShip community and contribute your talents, art, or ideas to the mission?
• Have something you’d like to send to the Moon or beyond? Perhaps a book, story, seeds, or more?
• Are you an artist and want to be included in an upcoming call for art for a select Art LifeShip Lunar Gallery?
• Looking to launch your own product, initiative, or community that could be included in monuments across space?

LifeShip is a community movement and space monument platform to help make your out-of-this-world dreams a reality.

Let’s explore—reach out! 🚀
 
Landing Soon!

Thank you for being part of the LifeShip mission. Together, we are preserving Earth’s legacy and taking bold steps toward the stars. This journey is only possible because of our incredible community—you.

With gratitude and excitement for what’s ahead…

Together, to the stars!
Ben