Jan. 15, 2025, 2:25 p.m. ET The Moonhouse was set for transport on SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket on Wednesday. AP STOCKHOLM — A Swedish artist is about to have the dream of a lifetime fulfilled: A little red model house he created was 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, was ready to hitch a ride to the moon on a lunar lander operated by the Japanese company ispace. It was set for transport on SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket that took off from Cape Canaveral early Wednesday morning. Artist Mikael Genberg says he has been wanting to put his typically Swedish-looking miniature house on the moon for 25 years. The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifts off from NASA’s Launch Complex 39A at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida. CRISTOBAL HERRERA-ULASHKEVICH/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock 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.” “What’s the purpose? It’s art,” he added. Explore More