The Moon House (Månhuset), “The first art project on the moon” is a project to put a full-sized replica of a classic copper red Swedish country cottage on the surface of the Moon: ‘Moonhouse’ Crowdfunding Project Aims to Build 1st Art Show on the Moon – Space.com.
See also The Moon House Project – osinsweden.com.
They need to raise $15M to travel with Astrobotic when they and others are scheduled to ride a SpaceX Falcon 9 to the Moon.
The winners of the 2014 NASA Langley Art Contest have been announced: Visions of Future Seen in 2014 Student Art Contest Winners – NASA.
Here is a gallery of the entries: 2014 NASA LaRC Art Contest – an album on Flickr.
The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter project has opened the The Moon as Art poll. Visitors can choose which of five images created by the project are the most aesthetically pleasing.
To celebrate its 5th Anniversary, the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter mission presents Moon As Art !The images in the collection were created using data gathered by LRO over the first 4.5 years of operations. These top 5 images are presented to you, the public, to decide which will be the cover of the Moon As Art collection. Voting is open from May 23 — June 6th. The winner will be announced with the release of the full collection on June 18, 2014, the 5th anniversary of LRO launch.
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Here’s an article about the International Space Orchestra, which I’ve posted about before (see here, here, and here) : How NASA Scientists Created an International Space Orchestra – Space.com
Ben Hayoun’s enthusiasm for space didn’t end with the International Space Orchestra. She is currently pursuing informal astronaut training, and her next project is a film called “Disaster Playground” about potential space catastrophes, such as an asteroid impact, and the emergency procedures for handling them.
Check out this gallery of exoplanet artworks: The Art and Science of NASA’s Best Exoplanet Illustrations – Science/WIRED –
Kepler-20e by Tim Pyle. Image: NASA/Ames/JPL-Caltech