Peace on Earth, Peace off Earth, Peace with Earth

From Chaos to Cosmos

 

The Space Peace Star project is being proposed as an artistic intervention and global collaborative effort to influence the direction of humanity's future from one of chaos and misery to one of peace and prosperity.

The Space Peace Star mission is three-fold:

1. to become a communication vehicle for global solidarity in the cause of peace and tolerance at a time when geopolitical tensions signal there is a serious threat to the future of human civilization,
   
   
2. to symbolically connect  - through its development -  the promise of space development with the future well-being of humanity,
   
   
3. to allow the public to become directly involved in a global initiative that opposes the forces of militarization and repression. 

The Space Peace Star project has a long history which began in the mid-1980’s as the O.U.R.S. – Orbiting Unification Ring Satellite, a project to create a "circle in the sky" as a global symbol of unity, hope and peace to celebrate and to commemorate the arrival of the new millennium. The OUR-Space Peace Sculpture - a precursor project initiated at the height of the Cold War in 1988 to mark the 1992 International Space Year (ISY) was proposed to celebrate space as an emerging arena of peaceful international cooperation. The design of the OUR-SPS - a circle divided by a central quadrant - is the Greek astronomical symbol for planet Earth as well as an ancient and universal symbol found in many cultures.  A spaceflight opportunity was established in 1988 between the OURS Foundation and the USSR space agency Glavkosmos and a full sized OUR-Space Peace Sculpture with a diameter of 6 meters was built in 1990 by NPO Energia in Russia.

The first Cold War ended in 1991 with the dissolution of the USSR and the OUR-SPS and subsequently the O.U.R.S. projects were postponed due to uncertainties associated with the future of the Soviet space program. The context of confrontation also appeared to change as many nations actually began a significant cooperation in space – first on the Russian Mir space station and later on the International Space Station (ISS). However, the much hoped for “Peace Dividend” and an ease in tensions did not materialize at the end of the Cold War and today humanity is even closer to total global war.

The Space Peace Star is a new manifestation of the earlier Orbiting Unification Ring Satellite and the OUR-Space Peace Sculpture projects that builds upon the previous work and experience. Merging these two projects into a universal symbol of our planet carrying a message of Peace on Earth, Peace off Earth and Peace with Earth, realized through the support and participation of a global public and large enough to be visible to all citizens of planet Earth, the Space Peace Star will be a unifying message that the promise of a Space Age is preferable to the possibility of a Stone Age.

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Cooperation

The Space Peace Star project is an open source, open space, open community astronautical art project. We are seeking cooperation and support from individuals, institutions and organizations that truly believe that "War" is no longer an option for the future of humanity.