A Trump-aligned religious group wants to plant a cross on the Moon with Elon Musk's help, according to a new report.
The Cross on the Moon Coalition, a Christian group that partnered with Trump's Freedom 250, wants a robotic cross to unfold from a lunar lander by 2030, but it needs a major funding source, according to Talking Points Memo.
The coalition's founder, Justin Park, said in an interview with the Catholic Messenger, a church-backed publication in Iowa, that the endeavor will cost more than a million dollars, and evangelizing former Trump White House aide and billionaire space enthusiast Elon Musk is part of the plan.
"The idea is really to find a big space advocate who hasn't found the Lord yet," Park told the Catholic Messenger. "Ideally, we would want to convert someone like Elon Musk. The world would just be a whole lot better if we could evangelize Musk and then make him into an evangelist."
Park told TPM in an email that the Cross on the Moon Coalition is "actively fund-raising and working towards evangelizing the tech community," and "reaching Elon and others is an ongoing process that our team works on and prays for every day."
According to TPM, the coalition states that it's on "a spiritual mission to send a cross to the lunar surface to consecrate the heavens and remind humanity that God is the King of the universe."
The group has created animations and images showing how a robotic cross can unfold from a lunar lander, and hopes to make "millions" of miniature Moon cross landers to give to "believers around the world," according to TPM, citing the coalition's website.
Park told TPM that the coalition is "definitely aligned with Trump's efforts to bring more prayer to America," and that he "volunteered at multiple Freedom 250 events."