On Wednesday, a building will be launched from Cape Canaveral to be established on the moon.
Not a research facility or lunar base. Not for mining or astronaut support or future lunar infrastructure or even commemorative purposes. It’s not even big enough for Astronaut Barbie. The building’s purpose is just to be there, the first permanent extraterrestrial building, sort of (by humans, anyway).
The Swedish MoonHouse is a small red toy-sized house that resembles the classic Swedish red cottages that have dotted the Nordic countryside for centuries. Artist Mikael Genberg has put little red houses in bizarre locations before, including up a tree and floating in a lake . This one, he’s been wanting to do for 25 years…