Hi there!<br><br>I'm Mat, another guy from the DIY bio group. I also joined just this list recently. We are thinking about something similar to the lightweight probes mentioned here, but a more down-to-earth version. I am involved in the work of Puli Space Technologies ( <a href="http://pulispace.com/">http://pulispace.com/</a> ) where we are building a moon rover and want to launch it around 2014. We would have room for a small payload on the rover, which could hold some living material and a mini camera. The idea would be put some bacteria or tardigrada or whatever in a small container, and monitor the activity of these organisms as they get launched from Earth and land on the Moon.<br>
<br>We did have a very lively group of students wanting to build a camera for this, but they couldn't secure any funding for it. So theoretically if we could design a small, light, low power unit with some living bugs in it, we could send it to the Moon. How does that sound?<br>
<br>Cheers,<br>Mat<br><br>