The consortium tested the practicalities of using a printer on the Moon by setting up a D-shape 3D printer, which are used to print very large house-sized structures, in a vacuum chamber with simulated lunar material.

BBC: 3D printed moon building designs revealed

In 1920, Leos Janacek turned to science fiction for his opera The Excursions of Mr. Broucek, setting one of its scenes on the moon, where the local residents turn out to be fussy, art aficionados.

NPR: Quirk of Nature: Janacek's 'Cunning Little Vixen'

There was always a sleepwalker edging along the parapet of a skyscraper with his arms reaching toward the moon, or a werewolf starting to howl in the middle of Times Square, or a pyromaniac setting fire to the dock warehouses.

NEWYORKER: The Daughters of the Moon

The moon was rising over the mountains, aglow there opposite the lingering light of the setting sun.

NEWYORKER: Or Else