Who cares about humans reaching Mars in a few decades when the first energy drink ever is scheduled to land on the moon in 2015?

Japan-based Otsuka Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., an international health products company, has announced its plans to win the commercial beverage race to the lunar surface by sending a can of its powdered Pocari Sweat to the moon next year.

Sealed in a 2.2-pound beverage container made out of titanium, the Pocari Sweat will be set on the surface of Earth's only natural satellite, the hope being that astronauts of the future will be able to tap the water researchers now speculate exists below the lunar surface, mix it with the powdered drink -- and enjoy.

A news announcement posted on the Okutska Website explained the predicted meeting between energy potion and future space explorer would be affirmation of the dreams held by youth everywhere.

"Otsuka hopes that one day youths interested in space will live out their dreams, collect the DREAM CAPSULE, and drink the POCARI SWEAT mixed with the water found on the moon," the company wrote.

That "dream capsule" will be a sealed time capsule in which the actual Pocari Sweat mix will be locked, along with a mass of handwritten messages, or, "dreams," from children interested in space travel.

The capsule will reportedly be able to endure the harsh lunar environment, which swings from really hot to really cold as the moon's rotation exposes its different sides to the sun, according to a company news release.

The promotion's ultimate catch, however, is that the time capsule will only be accessible to holders of the so-called "dream rings" given to children whose messages are collected during visits the company stages at various schools and then ride aboard what The Verge reports will be a lander designed by commercial startup Astrobiotic Technology.

The lander itself, according to an Astrobiotic Technology news release, will be boosted into space aboard a Falcon 9 rocket developed by Space Exploration Technologies Corporation, or, SpaceX.

If you want to send additional messages with the October 2015 Okutska mission, you can post them on the Dream Messenger project's website.

After the Dream Messenger arrives at its lunar destination, Earthlings will still be able to send messages to it by aiming a smartphone towards it during a moonlit night.