This photo provide by The Moonhouse project and taken in September 2024 at the ispace facilities in Japan shows a little red model house created by ar

Mission to moon carries tiny, red Swedish home to space

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2025-01-15 15:30:04

This photo provide by The Moonhouse project and taken in September 2024 at the ispace facilities in Japan shows a little red model house created by artist Mikael Genberg and scheduled to launched into space on a Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral in Florida on Wednesday, Jan. 15. ispace mission 2/The Associated Press

A Swedish artist is about to have the dream of a lifetime fulfilled: A little red model house he created will be launched into space this week and, if all goes according to plan, put on the surface of the moon.

The Moonhouse, the size of a big hand, will hitch a ride to the moon on a lunar lander operated by the Japanese company ispace. It’s set for takeoff on SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral at 1:11 a.m. Wednesday.

It was “a crazy, maybe idiotic, but at the same time, in my mind, really poetic thought to put a red house with white corners on the surface of the moon,” Genberg said in a video posted on Facebook. “And now it’s going to happen.”