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    After 25 Years in the Making, a Swedish Artist and a Space Engineer Have Actually Launched a Traditional House to the Moon - Touchdown in 28 Days!
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    After 25 Years in the Making, a Swedish Artist and a Space Engineer Have Actually Launched a Traditional House to the Moon – Touchdown in 28 Days!


    Swedish artist Mikael Genberg, known for pushing boundaries with extraordinary ideas, teamed up with seasoned space engineer Emil Vinterhav to accomplish what many believed was impossible: sending a traditional Swedish red house, complete with space-qualified red paint, to the Moon.

    After 25 years of relentless persistence, extensive testing, and sheer ingenuity – including developing a unique ceramic paint in Mikael’s own kitchen – the dream finally became a reality. Their "Moonhouse" is now officially en route to the lunar surface, having launched aboard a recent SpaceX mission in collaboration with Japan’s iSpace.

    In just 28 days, humanity’s first lunar house will softly touch down. Whether it lands upright on its base or upside down on its roof remains a big question.

    Epic achievement or wasted effort – your thoughts?

    https://www.buzzsprout.com/1915816/episodes/17119351

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    2. SadBoyeBleu on

      You could have launched a canvas painting there for all the impact it’ll have. We need infrastructure, not a fucking art installation

    3. Admirable_Young_8896 on

      I’m so proud to live in an era where we can fly-tip on the moon now too :3

    5. trekxtrider on

      I am not sure how much art costs to create but I just don’t get it.

    10. Hattix on

      It’s a tiny model used as a balancing mass on the spacecraft.

      When space agencies do this, such as the Lego figures NASA sent to Jupiter, this is the reason. They need to add more mass to balance the centre of mass along the line of thrust, so they might as well do something significant if they can.