On April 11, 2019, an Israeli probe named Beresheet attempted to land on the Moon; it was the first lunar landing attempt by a private mission and the first for Israel. The mission's goal was to create a sort of backup copy or archive of Earth. Included in the data carried by the spacecraft was a backup of life on Earth: 30 million pages of information in English—books, dictionaries, languages, and so on—as well as DNA samples from various individuals (specifically 25 people), although only one is publicly known: Nova Spivack, the mission's founder and leader.
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