Rocket man

“I retired from project writing and found a new passion – space,” said Sun City resident Ken Kozy.

This passion led Kozy and his wife Mary to Cape Canaveral, Florida to watch the launch of OSIRIS-REx on September 8, 2016. This spacecraft held a special meaning and cargo for Kozy.

Kozy said, “There was an invitation to share your reflections in a creative work that would ride aboard the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft on its journey to the asteroid Bennu.”

Kozy said that “One of those data banks is a memory stick of the artwork submitted by over 7,000 people from around our Earth. That includes my eBook (a Christmas Nativity story – computer translated into seven languages), artwork photos, 7-Dimensional eCommunication Concepts, and a prayer for the success of the Mission and NASA.”

As the journey of the OSIRIS-Rex orbited the earth to prepare for its path to the asteroid, Kozy paid close attention.

“On September 22, 2017, we celebrated the flyby by the OSIRIS-REx satellite, by cheering the satellite onward from the front of our home,” he said.

The journey of the OSIRIS_Rex reached a milestone recently.

“On December 3, 2018, the spacecraft completed its 1.2 billion-mile journey to arrive at the asteroid Bennu,” said Kozy.

Kozy is attending another launching on January 7, 2019. Excited about the upcoming trip he said, “This project is a joint effort called the Commercial Crew Program. NASA and industry partners prepare for the next generation of space exploration from American soil. The project’s goal is to launch astronauts to the International Space Station from Florida.”

Kozy said “This launch will be unmanned. It is a test run to see if the computer handles the flight to the Spaceflight that will transport astronauts to the International Space Station in the future.”

Kozy has a box that contains two pieces that are about the size of a quarter. “These tiny discs of laser-etched nickel contain a mind-boggling amount of information,” he said.

A private lunar lander’s maiden moon mission will be helping to preserve some of humanity’s precious cultural heritage. Our data will be preserved if we are wiped out by an asteroid or by our own means.

A Lunar Library is being planned for the year 2000 by Los Angeles-based Arch Mission Foundation on a private Astrobotic lunar lander.

Kozy added, “The library consists of tiny discs of laser-etched nickel and 30,000,000 Nano-pages are included in the time capsule.”

Nickel isn’t appreciably affected by space radiation or the moon’s temperature extremes, so the library — which contains the equivalent of millions of pages of text and images — will likely last billions of years, Arch Mission Foundation and Astrobotic representatives said.

“Memories in DNA” project, encourages people to share images they wish to remember forever in a type of time capsule which could be sent to the Moon. For the current project, members of the public can contribute their own images to the Lunar Library.

Kozy is contributing to that project.

He states, “My time capsule contains eBibles, Bible-related digitized music, videos, photos, audio, and efiles of Bible-related maps, menus, astronomy/stars, reflections, audio retreats, and ebooks utilizing 7-dimensional ecommunication concepts – some are computer translated into other languages. Also, USA Heritage Documents which include the Declaration of Independence, Bill of Rights, and other documentation.”

The Lunar Library aims to Preserve Civilization for Millennia.

“This data will be preserved for perhaps billions of years on the lunar surface,” according to the Arch Mission Foundation.

The laser-etched nickel — an analog microfiche – is readable by a 1,000-magnification optical microscope. It will not require a computer to read it. Nickel will withstand the space radiation or the moon’s temperatures — and will likely last billions of years.

The first stage of the Lunar Library is due to launch in 2020 and arrive on the lunar surface and be located permanently at the lander site on the northeast part of the Moon by a robotic lander called Peregrine.

Kozy invites readers to check out his website for up to date information www.KenKozy.com.

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