The work of 30,000 artists, writers, film-makers and musicians from 157 countries is going to be launched into space and stored on the moon ... filled with digital versions of art from Earth.

The project will see around 30,000 works of art, literature ... (For good measure, some material will be sent to the moon on digital memory cards.) The Lunar Codex materials are being sent ...

Using Nanofiche, a space-grade technology designed to endure the extreme conditions of space, selected artworks will be preserved for billions of years on the Moon as a testament to human ...