Sea of Tranquility: A Literary Anthology - Lunar Codex

Sea of Tranquility: A Literary Anthology - Lunar Codex

Hardback copy version of, 'Sea of Tranquility: A Literary Anthology' written by members of the South Florida Writers Association. The book was created to be part of the Lunar Codex - a concept created by Sam Peralta. The Lunar Codex brings together more than 50,000 artists, writers, poets, musicians, and filmmakers to be included in time capsules sent to the Moon on NASA missions.

The 'Sea of tranquility' is one of thousands of works stored on semiconductor and ceramic glass digital memory, silver discs, quartz nanochips, chromatic matrices, and gold and nickel nanofiche discs that will be sent to Nobile Crater at the Lunar South Pole. These special tiny storage devices store thousands of literary, art, and musical contributions which are placed aboard the Griffin Lander - to touch down on the surface of the Moon as a mini-museum. The 'Sea of Tranquility' is part of the Codex Polaris, due for launch on Astrobotics Technology's Griffin Lander (part of NASA's Commercial Lunar Payload Services). Codex Polaris is one of several art installations being carried aboard NASA missions, arranged by artist Sam Peralta - the first of which was Codex Orion aboard NASA's Artemis-1 mission. Sam contacted Florida based writer Howard Camner to commission this book. Camner sought contributions for the book based on the question, 'Would you like to send a poem or short story to the Moon?' Many writers and poets did, and this book collates their work. A nanofiche version will eventually sit on the Moon's surface.

The concept of the Lunar Codex builds upon similar projects such as the Moon Museum which is believed to have been launched aboard Apollo 12. Covered in small artworks, the tiny ceramic wafer was supposedly attached to the leg of the Apollo 12 Lunar Lander, which still resides on the Moon today.