A Swedish artist's long-held dream is on the brink of coming true as a small red model house he designed is set to be launched into space and placed on the moon.
The Moonhouse, a miniature red house about the size of a large hand, will travel aboard a lunar lander operated by Japanese company ispace. It is scheduled to launch from Cape Canaveral on SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket at 1:11 a.m. Wednesday (0611 GMT).
Artist Mikael Genberg has been envisioning this project for 25 years.
"It was a crazy, maybe idiotic, but also poetic thought to place a red house with white corners on the moon," Genberg said in a Facebook video. "And now it's going to happen."
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When asked about its purpose, Genberg succinctly said, "It's art."
Currently in Florida to witness the launch, Genberg expressed his excitement. "It's small on Earth, but on the moon, it will be big—there’s nothing else like it in space," he told The Associated Press.
The aluminum house, coated with space-certified paint, measures 12 centimeters (4.7 inches) long, 8 centimeters (3.1 inches) wide, and 10 centimeters (3.9 inches) tall.
Genberg's Moonhouse project has been showcased in various locations over the years, including treetops, underwater, the Great Wall of China, and even aboard the International Space Station as a companion to Sweden’s first astronaut, Christer Fuglesang.
The lunar mission, supported by 70 donors who contributed between 7 million and 10 million Swedish kronor ($620,000–$888,000), includes the flight and the deployment of the house using the lunar rover Tenacious.
Julien-Alexandre Lamamy, CEO of ispace Europe, noted, "The vision of the artwork merges with our own—to expand our planet’s future and extend the sphere of human life into space."
If all goes as planned, the rover will land on the moon in approximately four months. Once there, it will release the Moonhouse, take photographs, and leave it standing as a testament to human creativity for thousands, or possibly millions, of years.
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