Talk About a Full Moon

By Melissa August, Harriet Barovick, Val Castronovo, Matthew Cooper, Tam Gray, Jeffrey Kluger, Daniel Levy, Lina Lofaro, Desa Philadelphia and Chris Taylor

Now any earth dweller can make his or her mark on our dusty satellite. For a mere $38, Applied Space Resources appliedspace.com will etch one page of your text or photos on an "Eternity Disk," left, which will be left on the moon by Lunar Retriever 1 in 2002. With luck, future moongoers may be able to find it among all the other stuff left behind by 14 Soviet and 24 NASA spacecraft:

Six U.S. flags

Two golf balls hit by Alan Shepard

Leather-bound Bible

Six loads of garbage, mostly tools and bags

Five nuclear-powered experiments

Family photo left by Charles Duke

Rookie astronaut pin left by Alan Bean

Figurine commemorating astronauts who died on duty

Two plaques with Nixon's signature

Vial containing astronomer Eugene Shoemaker's ashes

Three lunar rovers