Koons—and the others who participated in the mission—are not the first to be fascinated with the idea of sending his art into space. In an early move, the crew of Apollo 15 placed Belgian ...

Though its arrival marks a milestone, “Moon Phases” is not the only art to touch down on the moon’s surface. In 1971, Apollo 15 crewmembers left an aluminum figure by the Belgian artist Paul ...

It was a different kind of space race. In 2022, artist Jeff Koons announced that his sculpture, Moon Phases, would be blasted into space by a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and sent to the moon aboard a ...