Japan Will Put a House on the Moon

A teeny tiny house, to be exact.

Japanese company ispace is sending The Moonhouse, a tiny toy house created by Swedish artist Mikael Genberg, to the Moon with its next lunar mission.

This step would cap Genberg's 25-year long dream of putting the miniature of a typical Swedish-looking house on the Moon. 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 as reported by the AP, "and now it's going to happen."

"What's the purpose? It's art," he noted.

Image: ispace mission2