Latest blog says Q4 2022. MoonBox should be included on this first mission, but there's always a chance it'll get bumped off the manifest. https://www.astrobotic.com/astrobotic-unveils-peregrine-lunar-lander-flight-model/

Are there any updates on this? Did we make it to the moon? Any progress on possible recovery of XRP on the physical coins?

Happy New Year! For those that havnt given up on crypto yet is there a small timeline we can set up for 2020? Also, do we know when the launch is scheduled to happen?

May 28 Update First posted here: The 2theMoon silver medallion will have a twin added to Bank of Canada Museum!

May 10 Update I have reached out to Astrobotics in regards to launch updates. The launch window has been pushed back to 2020 from Cape Canaveral on a United Launch Alliance Atlas V (sorry SpaceX fan boys). The 2020 launch window is accommodate the other payloads that will be included (and I can only assuming are underwriting the major expenses) and not a reflection on the delivery technology. Some of the other public payloads are found here: https://www.astrobotic.com/manifest. As stated before the medallion has already been received at Astrobotics' processing facility in Pittsburgh. What this means for future 2theMoon medallions is that the face will be updated to reflect the new launch date, no other changes are planned at this time

Not a bad idea...

Some kind of thing that could capture your work, like 'xrp community really sends xrp to the moon, literally.!" Of it taking off?? It can even below budget, from cell phone.

What sort of video?

I can chip in to hire someone to make a video

Wooooo hooooo!!! Everyone in da ‘burgh will help to guard the medallion until launch!! I promise!!

Locked as the this part of the project is done

Forgot to add the update (shutout to @Sharkey) I have received confirmation that the medallion has safely made it to Astrobotics per-launch storage facility in Pittsburgh. I have also been asked if I want to be added to the list of interested visitors to the launch sites...

You should enter the design contest to win another free medallion

Please Guys , I dont mean to be a killjoy but: Remember dont risk money that you cant afford to lose. PLEASE NOTHING IS GUARANTEED IN LIFE

Just received the coins we ordered, and they are even better the expected! Thank you @Mercury for making this happen! I can barely wait for the coin moon launch in 2019 and the *other* moon launch, which may happen even sooner. Great job with some real creativity, kudos!

It is! My French-Canadian wife used the computer last :P- fixed. See?! I knew it was a good thing to check first! Of course since we have no idea when it would be redeemed we might need to use binary or some other universal language... (of for when the machines take over) 01010100 01101000 01101001 01110011 00100000 01100011 01101111 01101001 01101110 00100000 01101000 01100001 01110011 00100000 01100010 01100101 01100101 01101110 00100000 01110011 01100101 01101110 01110100 00100000 01101001 01101110 01110100 01101111 00100000 01110011 01110000 01100001 01100011 01100101 00100000 01110100 01101111 00100000 01110011 01101000 01101111 01110111 01100011 01100001 01110011 01100101 00100000 01110100 01101000 01100101 00100000 01110000 01101111 01110100 01100101 01101110 01110100 01101001 01100001 01101100 00100000 01101111 01100110 00100000 01100011 01110010 01111001 01110000 01110100 01101111 01100011 01110101 01110010 01110010 01100101 01101110 01100011 01111001 00100000 01011000 01010010 01010000 00101100 00100000 01110100 01101000 01100101 00100000 01110010 01101001 01110000 01110000 01101100 01100101 00100000 01110000 01110010 01101111 01110100 01101111 01100011 01101111 01101100 00100000 01100001 01101110 01100100 00100000 01110111 01100001 01110011 00100000 01101101 01100001 01100100 01100101 00100000 01110000 01101111 01110011 01110011 01101001 01100010 01101100 01100101 00100000 01100010 01111001 00100000 01110100 01101000 01100101 00100000 01101101 01100101 01101101 01100010 01100101 01110010 01110011 00100000 01101111 01100110 00100000 01110100 01101000 01100101 00100000 01011000 01010010 01010000 01000011 01101000 01100001 01110100 00100000 01000011 01101111 01101101 01101101 01110101 01101110 01101001 01110100 01111001 00101110 00100000 01010011 01110000 01100101 01100011 01101001 01100001 01101100 00100000 01101101 01100101 01101110 01110100 01101001 01101111 01101110 00100000 01100111 01101111 01100101 01110011 00100000 01110100 01101111 00100000 01000100 01100101 01101110 01101110 01101001 01110011 00101100 00100000 01000100 01101001 01111010 01100101 01110010 00101100 00100000 01000101 01100001 01110011 01110100 01100101 01110010 01000010 01110101 01101110 01101110 01111001 00101100 00100000 00100000 01000111 01110010 01100101 01111001 01000001 01101110 01100100 01110010 01101111 01101001 01100100 01000111 01110010 01100001 01110110 01111001 00101100 00100000 00100000 01001010 01101111 01101000 01101110 01010010 01100101 01110110 01101000 01100101 01101001 01101101 00101100 00100000 00100000 01101011 01100001 01101110 01100001 01100001 01110011 00101100 00100000 00100000 01101101 01101001 01100100 01100001 01101001 01110010 00110111 00110111 00101100 00100000 00100000 01101110 01110011 01100110 01110000 00101100 00100000 00100000 01010100 01101000 01101111 01101101 01100001 01110011 01010100 01101000 01100101 01010100 01000111 01010110 00101100 00100000 00100000 01010101 01110010 01111010 01100001 01110011 01001100 01100101 01100111 01100001 01100011 01111001 00101100 00100000 01010111 01101111 01100010 01101001 01101100 01100101 00101100 00100000 01011000 01101001 00110001 00111001 00110101 00101100 00100000 01111010 01100101 01110010 01101111 00101101 00110010 00101101 00111001 00100000 01100110 01101111 01110010 00100000 01101001 01101110 01101001 01110100 01101001 01100001 01101100 00100000 01100010 01100001 01100011 01101011 01101001 01101110 01100111 00100000 01100001 01101110 01100100 00100000 01110011 01110101 01110000 01110000 01101111 01110010 01110100 00100000 01101111 01100110 00100000 01110100 01101000 01101001 01110011 00100000 01110000 01110010 01101111 01101010 01100101 01100011 01110100 00101110

Is that the French way of spelling protocol?

As most are no doubt aware the first batch of 2theMoon medallions has been shipped out. The last straggler is the one that will actually travel to the moon. I am just about to pay the 20XRP to activate the address and would like to post a message in the memo field. Not only would this message be linked to the address of the coin on moon (and accessed via barcode information) it will live on the rledger. As promised I am including all the names that made the Wall of Awesomeness. Here is the message so far: This coin has been sent into space to showcase the potential of cryptocurrency XRP, the ripple protocol and was made possible by the members of the XRPChat Community. Special mention goes to Dennis, Dizer, EasterBunny, GreyAndroidGravy, JohnRevheim, kanaas, midair77, nsfp, ThomasTheTGV, UrzasLegacy, Wobile, Xi195, zero-2-9 for initial backing and support of this project. Any other suggestions?

Agree with all of the above, and I do deeply "heart" everything Canadian, or almost everything.

At least all the great Pens captains are Canadian, but as for the team itself... They broke my heart last year. Beating Ottawa in double over time in game seven in a Stanley Cup series...

yeah......???????? Diehard Crosby/Pens fan, sorry dude.....

Seriously. You're going there?

This is soooo cool, thanks, @Mercury. And I just read this about the DHL Moonbox project: "DHL will be in charge of the outbound delivery and transport to Astrobotic in Pittsburgh (USA), where the little packages will be stored for safekeeping until the first lunar mission." My hometown!!! WOO-HOO! First the Stanley Cup, and now THIS??

First purchase was the coins that @Mercury is minting. My second purchase was the telescope that I used to take this sweet moon photo. My friend offered me a really good price considering what he's put into it, AND he let me pay him in XRP. I gave him a slip of paper, showed him how to check the account balance, and told him never to type in the secret key. I gave him the option to sell back the slip of paper in 2 years time, for the agreed purchase price in USD or equivalent XRP market price in USD in 2 years, whichever was greater. He's not a crypto-investor and I doubt he'll try and cash it out, but he stands a chance of earning enough for a much nicer telescope in 2 years.

Update I just completed the purchase of a silver medallion to donate as a wallet for the MoonBox!