Swedish artist Mikael Genberg is just a few calendar month away from bear an artistic dreaming fulfilled . His 25 - year - long labor , calledMoonhouse , will soon move from canvas to reality , as he and his squad ’s framework of a traditional red Swedish mansion is now on its way to the Moon .
It launched on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket to begin with this calendar week and is traveling on board lander RESILIENCE , which is take a fuel - efficient but farsighted path to the Moon . So far , everything is proceeding as it should , and the lander is expected to land on the northern hemisphere of the Moon in four and a half months .
" The RESILIENCE lander is performing as we look it and now follow this thrusting by the propulsion system of rules is now head towards a lunar flyby , " Takeshi Hakamada , father and CEO of ispace , said in astatement . " We are very proud of with the carrying out of the lander , the subsystems , and of our very dedicated Mission Operations specialist and staff who are busy operating the lander . I want to give thanks them , all of our employees and stakeholders who are cheering us on during the first steps of this commission . "
The model is bond to ispace ’s lunar roamer , TENACIOUS ; once the rover is on the surface , it will place the little Moonhouse on a previously select area of the Moon . That moment will be a culmination of not just 25 old age of planning by Genberg , but also the piece of work of about 100 people that made it a reality . Among them is the technical squad that has work on aspace - locomotion - proofdesign for the house .
" experient engineers have worked on the Moonhouse ’s technical invention over the past two long time . The theatre anatomical structure has undergone extensive shock and vibration tests to ensure it can resist all the stress and challenges it will face during the journey to the moon and endure integral in its new climate , " Emil Vinterhav , head of the Moonhouse technical squad , said in astatement . " We have also conducted several functional test to imitate the landing of the house on the lunar Earth’s surface . "
" Even just finding a durable cherry blusher for the house is a storey in itself , " Vinterhav continued . " Against all odds , we finally superintend to identify a pigment that cope with all the stern essential affiliate with infinite mental process . "
The fiddling Moonhouse will be a dash of red in the desolate and magnificent black and white ofthe Moon .
Genberg name the stemma of the project as “ a brainsick , maybe idiotic , but at the same time , in my nous , really poetical sentiment to put a ruddy house with white box on the Earth’s surface of the moonlight . And now it ’s going to happen . ” In the samevideo on Facebook , he added : “ What ’s the purpose ? It ’s art ! ”
All belong well , this is move to be the second art piece on the Moon , following theMoon Museum , a ceramic wafer covertly attached to the stage of Apollo 12 .
