Want to bury your hair on the moon? That'll be £200 ($300)

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LONDON — It's unlikely that most of us will be walking on the moon any time soon, but a British-led consortium is offering the next best thing.

Lunar Mission One is selling the chance to send your photos or DNA into space in a time capsule to be buried under the lunar surface.

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The team has just unveiled plans to land a robotic probe on the Moon in 10 years' time, dropping off a public digital archive of human history and science, but they need financial help to the tune of £500 million ($780 million).

They've started a Kickstarter campaign to raise the initial £600,000 ($940,000) required to get the project off the ground, with extra fundraising planned for 2015. Read more...

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