TEDx Talk

TO THE MOON AND BEYOND

TEDx Talk video link

A year after the Lunar Codex's successful Orion mission, Dr. Peralta was invited to speak about the project at a December 2023 TEDx conference, organized by a pre-eminent South Asian institution. 

Alas, with payload deadlines for the Peregrine and Nova missions in the same time frame, and artist  requests for support due to media focus on the project over 2023-24, it was with regret that Dr. Peralta had to decline the invitation.

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TEDx at the University of Toronto

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In December 2024, Dr. Peralta received a second TEDx invitation, for a conference to be held at the University of Toronto in January 2025.

Scheduled after payload integration, in a quiet time before the impending launches of the Lunar Codex's Serenity and Minerva missions, he accepted the invitation and joined the TEDx speaker roster.

The TEDx Mosaic conference was held on  January 26, 2025, at the Isabel Bader Theatre in Toronto, Ontario Canada, where Dr. Peralta presented

TO THE MOON AND BEYOND
How to Get to the Moon in Five Easy Steps

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The response to the talk was phenomenal, with discussions on the Lunar Codex and humanity's heritage overflowing into the intermission. 

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Dr. Peralta also participated in the panel 'Voices from the Mosaic.' a colloquium of TEDx speakers, as part of the conference program.
 

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Voices from the Mosaic

A video record of Dr. Peralta's talk was released by the TED organization on October 24, 2025. 

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Videos of the panel 'Voices from the Mosaic,' and other events from the Mosaic conference were also released.

Subsequent to Mosaic, Dr. Peralta assembled materials from all presenters at the conference, behind-the-scenes from the TEDx team, and included these as a package in the Polaris archives.

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Images courtesy Duo Ma & Season Xiang (TEDxUofT), Claire Dela Gana (Golden Balangay Foundation), John Kinsella (Lunar Codex artist), and Cristina Privado Azzopardi.

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