Client DNA will be crystallised in space by Space Crystals LLC, and then using lunar landers, those stable crystals will be placed on the moon's surface. According to company executives, Capacity Crystals has reserved payload space for its first such delivery on a lander mission in 2023.

Customers must pay $150,000 for the technology, which is supported by Waypoint 2 Space and its founder Kevin Heath. It is designed to 'preserve one's existence in the universe,' the company said in a press release on Monday (Oct. 17). (The website is not yet operational, and sign-up information is not yet provided.)

According to Space Crystals, the idea entails infusing two crystalline solutions with customer DNA before launching the solutions into space where they will develop into 'two different and unique crystals.' According to Space Crystals, the technology is novel and has a patent application pending; DNA injection of a crystal in space has never been done before. (The company says that the microgravity conditions of spaceflight enable crystals to grow into distinct shapes on each journey, as opposed to the regular shapes seen on Earth.)

On Heath's resume are credits for work on the SpaceShipOne programme, which twice in 2004 launched the first commercial crewed spacecraft to the final frontier, as well as stints at Fortune 500 companies, startups, and U.S. government military agencies like the Defense Advance Research Projects Agency (DARPA).

While the lunar lander that Space Crystals will employ for its first trip to the moon next year is still unknown, there are a few alternatives available under NASA's Commercial Lunar Payloads Services (CLPS) programme. The NASA-led Artemis mission, which seeks to send astronauts to the moon later in the 2020s, is supported by CLPS.

In order to launch its Peregrine lunar lander in 2023, Astrobotic Technology has agreed to acquire Masten Space Systems, a former rival that declared bankruptcy earlier this year. It is unknown what will happen to Masten's $75.9 million CLPS deal, though. The continuation of Masten technology, especially its propulsion research and vertical takeoff and vertical landing (VTVL) advancements, was underlined by Astrobotic at the time of acquisition in September. Intuitive Machines plans to undertake two missions in 2023, one of which will send a robot to drill through ice near the south pole of the moon. Intuitive, which will use SpaceX Falcon 9 rockets to launch its missions, was recently valued at more than $1 billion in the midst of a merger that, if everything goes as planned, may add it to the Nasdaq.