We could not have reached out to the tens of thousands of creatives now in the Lunar Codex, nor imagined this incredible journey was possible, without a committed network of friends in the arts and in technology.

Curators, anthologists, and editors, engineers, technologists, and dreamers - to each and everyone of you, thank you to the Moon and back.

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• Didi Menendez, indefatigable curator and editor, the heart of the PoetsArtists community, and publisher at GOSS183

• Steven Alan Bennett and Dr. Elaine Melotti Schmidt, curators, collectors, philanthropists, and the soul of The Bennett Prize 

• Kara Lysandra Ross, curator, educator, co-chair & chief operating officer of the Art Renewal Center

• Danijela Krha Purssey, editor-in-chief and co-founder with Richard Purssey of Beautiful Bizarre magazine

• For The Polaris Trilogy, inspired lead editor Joyce Brinkman - inaugural Poet Laureate of Indiana and executive director of Brick Street Poetry - assisted by editors professors Dr. Joe Heithaus of DePauw University, and Jessica Reed of Butler University; and Barry Harris, Vice President of Brick Street Poetry and editor of the Tipton Poetry Journal; in collaboration with the Lunar Codex

• Grace Cavalieri, poet, founder and host of the pre-eminent poetry podcast The Poet and the Poem from the Library of Congress 

• Publisher Eric Rhoads, and editor-in-chief Peter Trippi, of Fine Art Connoisseur magazine

• Beverly Chang, art enthusiast and public relations director for the California Art Club 

• Mark Lipman, evangelical poet and editor of The Vagabond Lunar Collection, an anthology of poetry and illustrations compiled in collaboration with the Lunar Codex

• Howard Camner and Mort Laitner of the South Florida Writers Association, editors of The Sea of Tranquility poetry anthology, compiled in collaboration with the Lunar Codex

• Jessica Libor, curator of the Legends of the Moon exhibit, in collaboration with the Lunar Codex, at the Era Contemporary Gallery

• Cory Dingle, executive director of the Estate of Norval Morrisseau (ENM), David J. Harris, global partnership director of ENM and founder of the Museum of Inuit Art, and Jessica Svenningson, ENM digital project lead and gallery director of the Klondike Institute of Art and Culture

• All the incredible folks at the Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada, the Gerald Dumont Institute, and Kipling Gallery

• International Lunar Observatory Association executive director Steve Durst and executive committee member Elisa Perednia, and the staff at ILOA and Canadensys Aerospace, for the visionary ILO-X mission that brought the Ka'Imi and Lunar Codex cameras to the Moon via the Odysseus

• Bruce Ha, scientist, entrepreneur, and the visionary developer of the NanoFiche and Totenpass data storage technologies; our critical logistics, archival, and R&D partner for our Nova, Serenity, Freya, and Polaris missions

• Ben Haldeman, evangelist and founder of LifeShip, and our logistics partner for Serenity and Freya

• Graeme Stevenson, OAM, artist, documentary filmmaker, and Sophia Stacey, artist and documentary filmmaker - and their associates at Colour In Your Life

• Romana Go, collector and peerless arts promoter at The Argo Collection

• Kim Ingles and Julia Loersch, filmmakers and friends, whose documentary The Art Side of the Moon - along with all its cast and crew - brought the story of the Lunar Codex to thousands around the world

• Charlotte Mueller, CEO, publisher and multimedia art enthusiast, Nicoleta Vasilache, Tara Rankovic, and all the staff at SNAP Collective, for their work on Manifest for the Moon, the first monograph overview of some of the visual art in the Lunar Codex  

• The Burning Man Project organization, Marian Goodell, CEO and founding board member; Katie Hazard, director of art; and Miranda Petersen, art administrative coordinator 

• Michael Sorkin, visionary entrepreneur, co-founder of Barrelhand, and my billion-year neighbor on the Odysseus

• Muriel Bilger, tireless evangelist for creatives in visual art, poetry, music, and film

• Fellow curators at PoetsArtists, including Sergio Gomez (special shout-out to the 33 Contemporary Gallery), David Anthony Hummer (special shout-out to the Wasau Museum of Contemporary Art), Daniel Maidman, Steven DaLuz, Frank Bernarducci, Dirk Dzimirksy, Alisa El-Bermani, Jay Menendez, Walt Morton, John Seed, and so many more in the 33PA community

• The editors for The Future Chronicles and the Chronicle Worlds anthology series, Crystal "Pikko" Watanabe, Ellen Campbell, Chris Pourteau, Therin Knite, Alex Roddie, Jeff Seymour, Nolie Wilson, Lucas Bale, Carol Davis; co-editors Anthea Sharp, Nick Webb, and Artie Cabrera; and my personal editors John Joseph Adams, David Gatewood, Naomi Leadbeater, P.K. Tyler, and of course A.K. Peralta 

• Co-anthologists, Patrice Fitzgerald of Beyond the Stars, Daniel Arthur Smith of Tales from the Canyons of the Damned and Frontiers of Speculative Fiction, P.K. Tyler of UnCommon Anthologies, Kim Wells and P.K. Tyler of Mosaics, Artie Cabrera of Gravity City, Shebat Legion of Klarissa Dreams and Legion Press, John Joseph Adams, editor and publisher of the Hugo award-winning Lightspeed magazine

• The inspiring scientists and artists of the Interstellar Foundation (ISF), and its indefatigable executive director, Nick Searra, who pulls it all together

• The LunARC community, whose focus on social impact and equity provide a vision of the future to strive for, and to Lakshmi Karan and Topher Wilkins, who help bring order to the chaos 

• Our logistics and rideshare partners: on Orion - NASA and its partners; on Peregrine - Astrobotic / DHL Moonbox, Writers on the Moon, and Future Grind; on Nova - NanoFiche, ILOA, and GLL Lunagram; on Serenity and Freya - LifeShip, LunARC, ISF, NanoFiche, and Cerabyte; on Minerva - ISF, NanoFiche, and Lonestar Data; and on Polaris - NanoFiche and Astrobotic / DHL MoonBox  

• For their vision, the scientists, engineers, and staff at NASA, Astrobotic Technology, Intuitive Machines, Firefly Aerospace, AstroForge, Team Draper, AstroLab, SpaceX, the United Launch Alliance, and Blue Origin, makers of the next-generation spacecraft, launch platforms, landers, and rovers for NASA's Commercial Lunar Payload Service program and for the Artemis program; those for whom the journey is also the destination

• My parents, who nourished my love for art and science; and my family who have always been there for me

• And to Alice my partner in this life's journey, to whom I first promised the Moon

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We are grateful to all the artists, sculptors, authors, poets, songwriters, musicians, filmmakers, models and muses  who fill and inspire this life. Keep creating, keep inspiring the future. Thank you. Salamat. 謝 謝. Merci beaucoup.

- Samuel Peralta
  Toronto, Canada, Earth

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