Ten thousand of them by 2030, and one can be your mother’s.
Each life becomes 160 pages cut into nickel, in a section 1.8 mm across. A microscope and daylight read them, with no computer.
Three thousand sections fill a disc of the format that reached the Moon in 2024. The marked square is one section, and the outer band is the free ring.
Illustrations after photographs of the 2024 disc; the sample text is invented.
1 names so far on Disc I’s free ring.
Twelve calls of about twenty minutes, on any phone, with a patient interviewer that is an AI and says so.
Her calls become a cloth-bound book in her own words, and she and the family correct every chapter before it is printed or cut.
Her section of Disc I is etched and registered in her name, with a signed certificate of ownership.
It flies as a passenger on a commercial lunar landing planned for 2028, once all 3,000 sections are filled.
The sample page is invented. The pictures of nickel are illustrations after photographs of the 2024 disc, and the Moon is a NASA photograph.
Put Mom’s story on the Moon10,000
Ten thousand life stories on the Moon by 2030 is the mission of the archive, and Disc I carries the first 3,000.
1969
A disc of messages from 73 countries, left on the Moon by Apollo 11.
1977
Voyager’s gold-plated record of human voices, now in interstellar space.
2024
A nickel library lands near the Moon’s south pole, made by others, in the etching planned for Disc I.
2026
Disc I opens, and its free ring fills toward 10,000 names by December 31.
2028
Disc I flies once all 3,000 stories are done, as a passenger on a commercial lunar landing.
2030
The archive reaches 10,000 life stories, with the volumes after Disc I to follow.
For thirty days from the order, every dollar comes back, for any reason.
We rewrite her book until the family loves it, and the rewriting is automated and hers to direct, before anything is printed.
Disc I flies when all 3,000 stories are done, on the first commercial lander that can take it, and no refund is tied to the flight date.
If the landing fails, her story flies again on the next landing, at our cost.
If she passes before the flight, her story flies as it stands, and her section passes to whoever she chose.
Renārs, founderfor Archivio Lunare, Rencix SIA · terms version 1, 18 October 2026
Archivio Lunare is a project of Rencix SIA, a small company in Latvia. Renārs, its founder, started it in 2026 after his grandfather died and nobody had written his story down.
We are new, and we say so. The etching and the disc format have flown before, made by others, and every dollar comes back for thirty days from the order, for any reason.
Her section is $457.99, paid once, and for thirty days every dollar comes back, for any reason.
Put Mom’s story on the Moon1 names so far on Disc I’s free ring.