Artist Mark Heine’s paintings are out of this world, or at least they will be when his art travels to the moon this year. 

Heine is one of 3,000 visual artists chosen to be part of the Lunar Codex collection which is bound for the surface of the moon in December as part of the first commercial moon launch in history and the first U.S. lunar landing in over 50 years. 

“The surface of the planet Earth changes so rapidly that we