Nasa’s plan to send first painting to the Moon
A LUNAR mission is currently in the works to send the first painting to the Moon sometime in 2022.
The painting heading to space is titled ‘We Rise Together – with the Light of the Moon, and was created by contemporary British Artist Sacha Jafri.
The mission to bring the artwork to our Moon is being carried out by Selenian – a UAE-based company that specializes in the curation of art in space – in association with Spacebit, Astrobotic, and Nasa through its Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) initiative.
The artwork, which is the first official art mission in history, is painted an aerospace-grade aluminum gold plate that is not only resilient to lunar conditions but also everlasting.
“Sacha Jafri’s work will be the first artwork on the Moon of such scale and significance. It will be preserved on the lunar surface, out of reach, forever,” Spacebit’s founder Pavlo Tanasyuk said.
“I believe in the future where the symbiosis of art and engineering will form a new wave of space exploration that will become a powerful tool to inspire, educate and give back to humanity,” he added.
The painting is due to be unveiled at a press conference in Dubai, UAE next week and is expected to feature 88 unique hearts.
The painted hearts, dubbed Jafri ‘Moonheart NFTs,’ will be released to the world as non-fungible tokens, or digital assets.
