British Poet Yogesh Patel’s Poetry Second Time in the Time Capsule on the Moon 

Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost Mission 1 concluded its mission on March 17, 2025, marking the first fully successful commercial moon landing on the Moon. The mission, which began with a launch on January 15, 2025, to celebrate the time capsule, including Patel’s poem representing Britain, was celebrated by the BBC on the Alice Dale show. He read a poem aboard a lunar lander, which successfully touched down on the moon’s near side, near Moons Latreille in Mare Crisium. Out of nearly a hundred poets invited and vigorously selected from the international landscape of poetry, the poem has now been archived on the Moon to represent the best of humanity’s cultural history for posterity. Patel’s poem ‘Standing Alone with Namaste’ is included in the time capsule archived on the Northside of the Moon. This mirrors the previous archiving on the Moon of the same poem in 2024 aboard the Polaris mission through SpaceX on the Southside of the Moon.

 

Usually, rare feats of achievement by the minority poets are not highlighted or appreciated in the British media. However, it remains a matter of extreme pride for Britain, India, and Prague. More on Patel’s work can be found at www.patelyogesh.co.uk.