What we've done. What's going to the Moon.

From the beginning, everything LunARC has sent to the Moon has carried the same intention: the visions and voices of people who don't usually shape humanity's future. The labs are the next chapter of that intention, now made tangible in local communities around the world. What young people dream and design travels to the Moon, and back to Earth.

The Lunar University Labs

Each lab involves a different context and a different set of participants. The methodology stays the same: use the Moon as a mirror, design from your knowledge base, and bring in perspectives that have rarely shaped how humanity governs itself.

NUR Lab, Santa Cruz, Bolivia (Completed)
Date: April 9 to 11, 2026

Students from environmental studies, engineering, medicine, law, international relations, tourism, psychology, and social sciences spent three days at Universidad NUR using the Moon as a mirror to reimagine governance. They drew from their fields of study, their cultural heritage, and lived experience with contested commons: La Guerra del Agua, El TIPNIS, Tarijuia. Four distinct governance models emerged. Their ideas are set to travel to the Moon, as the first framework of the Lunar University.
Read the full NUR Lab case study →

CAC Lab, Cairo, Egypt (In Progress)
Date: April to June 2026

Three- and four-year-olds whose lives span cultures and languages are being asked the largest questions in governance: Who decides, and what gives them the right? What do we owe each other? The premise: what do humans know before they're taught what to know? Radical inclusion at its earliest — young children in the governance conversation, bringing the one thing the rooms most need: pure imagination. Facilitated by our partner Good Future Ancestor Studio. Outputs forthcoming.

Chennai Lab, India (In Planning)
Date: Late October 2026

Senior students of India's classical traditions, guided by their gurus, exploring what these ancient knowledge systems already know about governance. About holding structure and improvisation together. About passing something across generations without losing what makes it alive.

Coming Next
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The Lab Series continues to push toward radical inclusion across disciplines, traditions, ages, and continents. We are exploring labs with classical musicians, contemplative communities, young people across the disability spectrum, and more — across South America, Africa, and Asia.

The Missions

Before the labs existed, LunARC was already inspiring thousands of young people with proof that their visions belong in humanity's future. Our missions carry that intention forward.

Lunar Mission 1 (Completed)
Date: Landed March 2, 2025

LunARC's first moonshot delivered a historic payload as part of the LifeShip Pyramid collection, aboard Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost lander. We invited students from marginalized and low-resource communities to contribute their ideas for the future through art, turning space into a canvas where everyone could see themselves reflected in what comes next. We gathered over 30,000 artworks from 40 countries, a testament to humanity's shared creativity. A digital repository containing this collection, The First Lunar Community Art Gallery, sits on the Moon at Mare Crisium, the crater visible to the naked eye from Earth.
Video →

Lunar Mission 2 (Upcoming)
Date:  2026

LunARC's second lunar mission honors our ancestors, who have been voyagers for millennia. We received over 1,000 submissions from Indigenous and Tribal individuals whose wisdom in collective care and stewardship offers guidance that science and technology alone cannot provide. This payload, created in partnership with LunarCodex and NanoFiche, will travel aboard Astrobotic's Griffin Lander, scheduled for launch in 2026.

Lunar Mission 3 (Planned)
Date: No earlier than mid-2027

The governance ideas by the first Lunar University lab students at the NUR Lab in Bolivia will travel to the Moon as part of the Lunar Codex Hinatea archive, aboard Astrolab's FLEX rover, launching via a commercial rocket, becoming part of a historic, permanent lunar record.

Deep Space Mission 1
Date: TBD

After finalizing the Lunar Community Art Gallery, we were given an extraordinary opportunity: to send a small sample beyond our solar neighborhood. A mosaic of 25 images, along with LunARC's vision statement, was etched onto nickel NanoFiche designed to endure for a billion years — a lasting record of humanity's hopes, dreams, and aspirations carried into the deep. Made possible through our partnership with LifeShip, aboard an AstroForge probe.

Where we're going

2026 is our year of experimentation. We are testing how the methodology of radical inclusion operates in different contexts. 2027 is when we begin to replicate and scale the model and launch NEXUS: a knowledge commons that connects outputs across labs, enabling ideas from one conversation to find their way into another, cross-pollinating and surfacing the connections, and making their way into the places where lunar governance is being decided.Governance is just the first chapter. The lab series will expand to every system humanity needs to reimagine: how we share resources, repair harm, care for each other, learn together. Each chapter generates curriculum for the Lunar University and new ways of seeing for Earth.And in 2035, we are planning for the first classroom to operate on the Moon (it might be an AI-robot instructor!) This will be both a beginning of what will physically unfold on the Moon and the culmination of a decade of work built across Earth by young people who will steward it.

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