Artist Jeff Koons aims to send sculptures to the Moon on commercial lunar lander
by Loren Grush from The Verge - All Posts on (#5XM5K)
An artistic rendering of the Intuitive Machines lander on the Moon Later this year, American artist Jeff Koons will be displaying some of his latest sculptures in their most exotic location yet: the surface of the Moon. Thanks to a new collaboration, Koons will create some new sculptures that will travel to the lunar surface on a robotic lunar lander made by Houston-based company Intuitive Machines.
Intuitive Machines' lander is called Nova-C, which the company has been developing in partnership with NASA. For the last few years, NASA has been actively working toward sending humans back to the Moon through its Artemis program. And as part of that effort, NASA has been working with commercial companies to develop a whole fleet of vehicles - from smaller robotic landers and rovers to landers capable of...