Q&A WITH AN AEROSPACE ENGINEER
Shaoni Bhattacharya interviews Jekan Thanga
What is the Lunar Ark?
It’s a backup storage of Earth’s biodiversity on the Moon, inspired by the Svalbard Global Seed Vault. We would store animal sperm and eggs, plant seeds, spores and maybe stem cells. We haven’t said we have a total solution, because the restoring process is far from easy! We can’t just take the egg and the sperm and
