Playwrights on the Moon
*I have no affiliation with either the Moonshot or Astrobotic shops. Links to these official shops are provided in case anyone is in need of a gift to commemorate this historic event.
What’s this all about?
In 2021, I was invited by Susan Kaye Quinn to be a part of a lunar time capsule. Through her leadership, indie authors around the globe packed digital stories aboard a microSD card and Writers on the Moon was born. It was loaded onto Astrobotic’s Peregrine Mission One and we headed to the moon January 7, 2024.
I cannot even begin to describe the feeling as I watched with 24,000 other people as Peregrine launched on the NASA stream.
It was so incredible that once we had escaped the Earth’s atmosphere, I thought, “I want to do this again, but with playwrights!” And I immediately went to the Astrobotic website and bought a payload for Astrobotic’s next mission, the Griffin Lander.
And then tragedy struck when a propellant leak caused Peregrine 1 to be unable to complete its mission and it was directed to reenter the Earth's atmosphere on January 18, 2024 where it became stardust.
But the dream didn’t stop there.
Writers on the Moon will be on Griffin. And Playwrights on the Moon will join that journey aboard Griffin, too, in Fall 2025.
Our payload will be filled with the Complete Works of Shakespeare as well as the writings of modern day dramatists from across the globe.
Stay tuned for updates, the manifest of all the works on this flight, and watch as we shoot for the moon!
