For the Season 1 finale of Moonshot Radio, we go to the moon.

Recorded in San Diego at the start of April, during the Artemis II mission, this episode brings the season full circle: from asking what it means to be human in the age of technology, to asking what parts of humanity we would carry beyond Earth.

I speak with Ben Haldemann, founder of LifeShip, a project creating monuments across space with backups of Earth’s life and humanity’s story. LifeShip has already landed a small golden pyramid capsule on the moon containing plant seeds, human DNA, species DNA, and a cultural archive of art, knowledge, stories, and wishes from Earth.

We discuss:

What it means to create a backup of Earth
Why the moon is becoming a new archive for life and culture
Seed banks, DNA archives, and humanity’s long-term legacy
Whether space expansion is escapism or stewardship
The new era of commercial moon missions
Burning Man, moon temples, and participatory space culture
Governance, values, and how we avoid repeating Earth’s mistakes in space
What human consciousness, creativity, and care might mean in a multiplanetary future

This episode closes Season 1 by returning to the heart of Moonshot Radio: technology is not just about what we can build. It is about what we choose to preserve, what we choose to become, and what values we carry with us into new worlds.

Thank you for joining this first season of Moonshot Radio.