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.

Firefly's "Blue Moon" and ispace's "Resilience" are the latest in an ongoing push to gain private-sector experience exploring the moon.

A SpaceX rocket carrying two commercial lunar landers took off toward space early Wednesday morning in another step toward an era of private moon exploration. This carpool to the moon carried Blue Ghost,