Art for Artemis – Ziba, Filip, Måns and Edvard

ESA has teamed up with eight art schools around Europe and challenged their students to produce art inspired by Artemis, lunar exploration and the European Service Module that will provide the power, propulsion, water and air for the astronauts on board.

Students made 24 artworks that we will showcase on the Orion blog over the coming months. Using a variety of techniques and from many different cultural backgrounds, the artists have thought about what human spaceflight to the Moon and beyond signifies.

This artwork was made by Tessa Kugel from the Beaux Arts de Paris in France and selected by an international jury to accompany the third European Service Module on its first part of the voyage to the Moon, from the Bremen integration hall in Bremen, Germany, to NASA's Kennedy Space Center, USA:

"Exploration is all about pushing boundaries and going where no one has gone before. The Artemis mission inspires us all to engage in space exploration, but more importantly still; to never feel satisfied by the current plate of information before us. It will pave a path for a new generation of space explorers to pick up where the Artemis mission leaves them today.

The launch of Artemis will tell a space tale to all of mankind of unified work that breathes equality and collaboration, in and outside of our planet. Recognising the full value of what each corner of our spherical world brings for the common good – above all else.

Without which we would not get the answers to our most burning questions; that of human and universal origin.

It is the space tale of tomorrow."

As the only place that humans have seen with their own eyes throughout history, our Moon features heavily in world cultures. The Artemis programme, itself named after the ancient Greek goddess of the Moon, will take humans back to our natural satellite and, in doing so, will become memorialised in popular culture.