To the Moon? Space Company Axiom Debuts NFT Art Auction Ahead of ISS Mission

Because the hours tick right down to the launch of Axiom Mission 3 (Ax-3) by way of a SpaceX spaceflight to the Worldwide House Station, Axiom House is launching an NFT public sale with art work impressed by the mission from a wide range of notable artists.
The “House Grails” public sale will debut at 6pm ET Wednesday on Nifty Gateway in partnership with each Axiom House and Web3 creator platform Transient Labs. The public sale spans 9 items of digital art work minted as Ethereum NFTs, a few of that are paired with bodily variations that might be despatched to house aboard Axiom Mission 3.
Creators collaborating within the public sale embody artists Amber Vittoria and Jack Kaido, photographer Dave Krugman, and Artwork Blocks founder and CEO Erick “Snowfro” Calderon in collaboration with Prohibition founder Jordan Lyall.
With some items, akin to Vittoria’s “Every thing You Know and Care About” and Krugman’s “Eclipse,” the client of the NFT may also obtain the bodily model after it returns to Earth following the mission.
Axiom House, Transient Labs, and Nifty Gateway have collaborated with 8 world-class artists to launch House Grails, a outstanding fusion of artwork and house exploration. pic.twitter.com/m57Hoclyex
— Axiom Space3 (@axiom_space3) January 9, 2024
“As we witness the historic Ax-3 mission, I imagine the House Grails assortment may also mark a historic milestone wherein eight unbiased artists got here collectively to push the boundaries of artwork and house and have fun the limitless potential of human creativity,” Axiom House Head of Web3 Mina Salib informed Decrypt.
“I am grateful that artists with such huge attraction are so space-conscious that they dedicated to the best of sharing their bodily and digital items with the world,” he added. “This assortment got here from a craving to have fun human ingenuity and the artistic spirit that connects us all.”
Coronary heart + Craft #1 is launching into house subsequent week with the Axiom #Ax3 mission 🚀
To commemorate the event, @ArtOnBlockchain and I are launching “House + Craft” three 1 of 1s that embody the bodily piece, hand-crafted by Snowfro@axiom_space3 @TransientLabs @niftygateway pic.twitter.com/2gEEaVBHyV
— Jordan Lyall (@JordanLyall) January 10, 2024
Axiom Mission 3 was slated to launch Wednesday across the identical time that the public sale begins, however SpaceX introduced this morning that the launch might be tried Thursday as a substitute. SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket will launch 4 worldwide astronauts aboard the Dragon spacecraft to the Worldwide House Station.
Edited by Ryan Ozawa.