robert rauschenberg was known for creating works with found objects.rhol was making films and pop art lithographs. i vividly remember watching apollo 11 on television. we were transfixed. but i don't really remember much about apollo 12. was this artwork smuggled onboard or did nasa greenlight the project? these were highly rational men of science, and people's lives were at stake. well, let me see if i can get any background information online. apollo 12 was the second mission to land a man on the lunar surface. it launched on november 14, 1969, just four months after neil armstrong took his famous steps. they were up there from november 14 to 24, 1969. ten days. at the end of their 10 days, the astronauts returned the lunar module to the command module, leaving the legs of the descent module on the moon, where they remain today. this is interesting. not long after its creation in 1958, nasa began commissioning artists to celebrate space flight, but no mention of our chip or of putting art on the moon. here's a story. it's from the new york times on n