A Swedish artist has a unique project in mind: building a little red house on the Moon and all he needs is $15 million to send a house-building kit into space next year.
According to news reports Mikael Genberg is envisioning a Swedish cottage about six and half feet by 10 feet. It isn't being built to actually house a human, it's more of an artistic creation.
"A small red house can be the symbol of prosperity, of thinking bigger thoughts, breaking new mental barriers and actually making this planet a lot better," Genberg says in a promotional video on the fundraising Moonhouse project website.
The goal is to drop the house pieces in October 2015 courtesy of SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket. The building plans features a thin space cloth over a carbon walls that will unfold due to gas infusion and be set in place upon landing.
Genberg has a team of support including a Swedish paint company and a U.S. robotics builder, Astrobotic Technology.
The little red Moon house isn't Genberg's first wild creation. In 2000 he built an underwater hotel room in a Sweden lake.
"Everything is possible - as long as we set our minds to it," he says. "Every time I see the moon, I know it's going to happen."
According to one report, the artist first thought of the moon house project nearly 20 years ago.
So far the Swedish artist has only raised a little over a $1,000 dollars with just under 200 days left in his crowdfunding effort to get the house into orbit and on the moon.
If the moon house project succeeds it'll be one of just a few moon installations to have taken place. Back in 1971 a U.S. Apollo space crew built a Paul van Hoeydonck sculpture, called Fallen Astronaut, on the lunar surface.
