That’s a newly formed nonprofit dedicated to designing and fabricating sustainable technology that supports long-range space missions.

In turn, the craft will beam back data about its own operational capacity.

Artists are helping them do that creatively.

Because theyshouldcontinue to exist for many decades and can tell a larger story about life on our planet.

“Imagine if your car, or your gear, or your phone, needed to last 200 years.

The simpler the spacecraft, the better.”

(Keep in mind that not all Kickstarter projects deliver on time or as promised.)

Funds raised on Kickstarter will go toward the equipment needed to wire up the two trees.

So what, exactly, does it sound like when a spacecraft and trees share the mic?

Don’t expect anything like David Bowie’s Space Oddity or the Beatles' Across the Universe.

That’s just the baseline track, though.

The song will be open source.

It will belong to all of us.