You can now 'mail' your keepsakes to Moon for $460

A US firm has recently launched "Moon mail" delivery services, which give people a chance to send their personal keepsakes on Moon, for 460 dollars in order to help fund a privately owned lunar rover launch.

According to Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, a keepsake mailer was a tiny hexagonal capsule that sells for US460 dollars or the largest, a 2.5cm by 5cm hexagonal that sells for US25, 800 dollars, News.com.au reported.

Astrobotic Technology and Carnegie Mellon University are trying to get their lunar rover to the moon to win US20 million dollars in an international contest sponsored by Google to promote privately funded lunar exploration.

The cargo would be regulated by the Federal Aviation Administration and the US Department of Defense. As such, Astrobotic expects people will send non-volatile items like wedding rings, locks of hair or other tiny heirlooms.

Under terms of Google's LunarX prize, the winning rover must travel about 500 metres on the lunar surface by the end of 2015. The device must also be able to transmit video of its progress to Earth.