Boingboing posted cool story of how art and space travel intersected for a moon landing.

"In November, 1969, the New York Times reported on the existence of a secret, miniature art museum that had been smuggled onto the surface of the moon on Apollo 12".

Frosty Myers, the artist who initiated the project "Moon Museum" originally pitched the idea through official channels, but when his request was denied, he stowed it, guerilla-art style, on the leg of the Intrepid landing module, with the help of an engineer.

The artists involved included famous American artists of the day: Andy Warhol, Robert Rauschenberg, David Novros, Forrest "Frosty" Myers, Claes Oldenburg, and John Chamberlain.

The six drawings were miniaturized and baked onto an iridium-plated ceramic wafer measuring just 3/4" x 1/2" x 1/40".

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