Fact #139
Missions
Apollo 11 left a silicon wafer the size of a coin carrying goodwill messages from the leaders of 73 countries, etched small enough to need a microscope.
Each statement was reduced two hundred times over and printed by the same process used for integrated circuits. It sits in the dust at Tranquillity Base with the plaque and the mission patches, and the disc will outlast every one of the governments that wrote on it.
Source: NASA Apollo 11 Press Kit, July 1969 · checked Sep 2026