Science  :  Space   RSS  Your Face on the Moon, Thanks to X
Prize Foundation  By Bryan Gardiner Email 09.13.07  If you could
send a picture and a message to the moon, what would you send?
It's a question the non-profit X Prize Foundation wants everyone
to start considering.  The organization best known for the $10
million Ansari X Prize for manned spaceflight announced Thursday
that it will dispatch a DVD to the moon, filled with personal
photos and messages from the general public. It's called the
Lunar Legacy Program.  The idea comes from a family photograph
left on the moon by Apollo astronaut Charles Duke back in April
1972.  "When (Duke) went to the lunar surface, one of the
personal items he carried with him was a shrink-wrapped photo of
his family with an inspirational message written on the back,"
explains the X Foundation’s Lane Soelberg. "He left that on the
lunar surface and took an iconic shot ... which for the last 35
years has been the only representation of the human race in any
kind of multime