On this day fifty-two years ago, NASA launched Lunar Orbiter 1 to the Moon in order to photograph the lunar surface. Today, that otherworldly landscape continues to inspire and delight us. British Artist Luke Gerram paid a particular tribute to our gray accomplice with Museum of the Moon: a gargantuan, mobile moon, measuring seven metres in diameter, and comprised of high-resolution NASA imagery of the lunar surface (at an approximate scale of 1:500,000). Since its creation in 2016, Gerram’s Moon has lived a veritable rockstar life: travelling the world from China to Canada. But on its most recent foray to Austria last month, the moon mysteriously went missing; perhaps a sign that no wonder of the universe should remain captive on Earth, even in effigy.
