Time capsule with DNA of humans could go to the Moon by next decade

Plans are afoot to plant a time capsule on the Moon within the next decade as part of the Lunar Mission One of Britain.
The capsule would consist of two-part time capsule – one would be a public part which will contain the history of the Earth; the other would be a private part that would be full of "digital memory boxes" created by individuals.
These memory boxes could contain digital files—records of family trees, videos, and selfies even—or actual DNA in the form of human hair. There is a catch - only those who fund the program would be able to avail of this this option of a digital memory box.
However, the concept of Time Capsule is a very old one and dates back to 1795 - crews have removed one such capsule from the granite cornerstone of the Massachusetts Statehouse. In the opinion of historians, it was originally placed by Revolutionary War luminaries Samuel Adams and Paul Revere among others.
The time capsule is believed to contain items like old coins and newspapers, but the condition of the contents is not known and Secretary of State William Galvin speculated that there are possibilities that some of these could have deteriorated over a period of time.
The capsule will be opened only after it is X-rayed at Boston's Museum of Fine Arts to determine its contents. The capsule was originally made of cowhide and embedded in the cornerstone when construction on the state Capitol began in 1795. Adams was governor of Massachusetts at the time. However, subsequently, in the mid-19th century, it was taken out and its contents transferred to a copper box.
The capsule has now been removed because of an ongoing water filtration project at the building.
Incidentally, another time capsule had been was uncovered from the Old State House, which served as the state's first seat of government. That was dating back to 1901 and was inside a lion statue atop the building – it contain well-preserved items including newspaper clippings, a book on foreign policy and a letter from journalists of the period.

UK to revive interest in the Moon while others focus on Mars

After the landing of US astronauts on the Moon, the interest in this heavenly body has apparently been replaced with shift of focus to the Red Planet Mars. However, UK plans to renew interest in the Moon and give it a new lease of life through its Lunar Mission One.
Scientists have set out their goals of a proposed UK-led mission to the Moon and its main objective appears to be to survey the Lunar South pole in order to learn more about the geology of the Moon and see if a human base can be set up in the future.
Among its others tasks would be to drill 100 meters below the surface apart from assessing the feasibility of setting up observatories on the far side of the Moon. Till now, samples of lunar rocks have been taken from three meters below the surface of the Moon by Apollo 17 Astronauts Gene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt in 1972. In contrast, Lunar mission One aims to drill up to 100 meters below the surface of a site which is already thought to have material thrown up by a giant impact billions of years ago from several kilometers below the surface.
Backers of this ambitious project expect to raise the bulk of the £500m needed for the project from public donations and, in return, the donors will be able to send messages, pictures and even hair samples to the Moon where it would be buried under the lunar surface.
In the opinion of Prof Ian Crawford, who is one of Lunar Mission One's principle scientific advisers, the mission has a serious scientific purpose to complete. In spite of having over 50 expeditions to the Moon including six landings by Apollo astronauts there is still much to learn.
The European Space Agency ESA had plans for a lunar lander but it has subsequently been scrapped and the objectives of Lunar Mission One are quite similar.