The honors has earned Sir Ben Ivancsics (of Ivanson Enterprises) an award, in cooperation with Space Blue and its founder Dallas Santana.

Art project firsts gaining prestigious recognition at the illustrious Swann Awards

BEVERLY HILLS, CA / May 19, 2026 / In a fusion of lunar preservation, humanity’s cultural heritage and now a 1 billion year preserved legacy, an iconic Mycenaean "Golden Mask" - a rare 3,000-year-old artifact symbolizing prestige, rarity, enduring excellence, and multi-generational impact - has been permanently inscribed on Lunaprise archival discs and delivered in a SpaceX launched lunar lander ("Odysseus" IM-1) to the lunar surface on 2.22.2024; as part of the private payload, "Lunaprise Museum".

The location where the inscribed twin of "Mycenaean- "The Golden Mask" sits now for eternity on the south pole of the moon, is where NASA's Artemis mission along with SpaceX and others will build a permanent colony. It shares its time capsule with masterworks from Leonardo DaVinci to Leonardo DiCaprio. The "Golden Mask" joins the super rareability index of the greatest artifacts on the moon that have twins of real physical art on earth. Much of the blue chip art is managed by Space Blue, and contains significant art assets from Lunar Art Fund LLC, a jointly owned company with HWAL Inc; and includes Michaelangelo, Leonardo Davinci, lost photo negative art of Andy Warhol and other rare art.

This milestone achievement has earned Sir Ben Ivancsics (of Ivanson Enterprises) an exclusive nomination, in cooperation with Space Blue and its founder Dallas Santana, both gaining prestigious recognition at the illustrious Swann Awards, to be held during the Cannes Film Festival 2026 (May 20th, 2026, at the Majestic Cannes on the Croisette). The nominations celebrate the visionary contributions to cultural preservation, elegance, innovation, and the elevation of timeless heritage through space-art.

Sir Ben delighted Swann Awards guests attending with a physical representation of the "Golden Mask" at the event.

The "Golden Mask" now sits forever in the Lunaprise Museum on the moon. Space Blue founder Dallas Santana, himself also a film director, put his own movie; The 9th Raider starring French actor/art collector CL7, alongside masters of Renaissance, Leonardo Dicaprio's AI Film story, and award winning 9th Raider cinematographer Isauro Mercado III's record setting photographic collection now archived on the moon. The very narrow selection of super exclusive artifacts, the priceless ones under Lunar Art Fund, also reserved a spot for The Golden Mask to secure space and art history. The move immortalizes its profound symbolism within humanity's first extraterrestrial cultural archive. At the heart of the approach of Ivanson, an exclusive, multi-generational legacy fellowship, the artifact represents excellence, stewardship, philanthropy, and meaningful connections among visionaries, leaders, and innovators committed to lasting global impact.

By sending the "Golden Mask" to the Moon, Space Blue's curation elevates this mission to an interstellar scale, preserving its essence as a beacon of human excellence for billions of years in an archive estimates to outlast Carl Sagan's Golden album project sent to space in the 1970's.

"The "Golden Mask" is a living symbol of legacy and prestige, now eternally preserved on the Moon for all of humanity," said Dallas Santana, Founder of Space Blue and Curator of the Lunaprise Museum. "We are deeply honored by the Swann Awards nominations with Sir Ben Ivancsics and the recognition for our combined collaborative team. This recognition affirms the important archiving steps Ivanson and our team took to preserve "The Golden Mask", one of culture's most unique artifacts in history."

About the Swann Awards

The Swann Awards celebrate a modern vision of elegance, honoring individuals, creators, explorers, entrepreneurs, and organizations who embody excellence, creativity, sensitivity, and the art de vivre. More than a traditional award, they recognize those who combine competitiveness with heart, talent, and audacity to inspire a more elegant world. Held as a black-tie gala, the third edition will take place on the Croisette at the iconic Majestic Cannes hotel during the Cannes Film Festival 2026. The awards highlight understated glamour, cultural finesse, and impactful contributions across art, innovation, philanthropy, and heritage; this builds on Space Blue's historic 2024 curating achievement which established the first confirmed art museum on the Moon via the lunar lander.

Contact Information:

For more information, visit www ivanson.co

To learn more about the space program archiving art film and music in future missions too in space, visit spaceblue.club

curator@spaceblue.club

View the original press release on ACCESS Newswire

Published onMay 13, 2026

ByTimes Square Chronicles, Suzanne Bowling, Author

In the summer of 1969, humanity looked upward and outward at the exact same moment.

First came Apollo 11 Moon Landing, when Neil Armstrong stepped onto the lunar surface and transformed science fiction into reality. Then, only weeks later, nearly half a million young people descended onto a muddy farm in Bethel, New York for Woodstock — a chaotic, euphoric collision of music, rebellion, idealism, sex, art, anti-war protest, and cultural reinvention that would come to define an entire generation.

One represented technology reaching the stars. The other represented humanity trying to redefine itself back on Earth. Now, more than half a century later, those two seismic cultural moments have become permanently intertwined in the most extraordinary way imaginable.

Artist and photographer Roger Sichel — who documented Woodstock as a teenager with startling intimacy and instinct — has officially become part of humanity’s growing cultural archive in space through the groundbreaking Lunaprise Museum and Lunar Records initiative.

Yes, literally on the Moon.

The Lunaprise Museum, described as humanity’s first art museum on the lunar surface, landed aboard the Odysseus lunar lander on February 22, 2024, as part of a private payload launched atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. Curated by Space Blue founder Dallas Santana, the archive preserves a sweeping cross-section of human creativity intended to survive for potentially billions of years.

Among the works preserved: Roger Sichel’s iconic Woodstock-era photography. That alone feels culturally poetic, because Sichel was there at the exact moment the world shifted. While astronauts were redefining humanity’s relationship to space, Sichel was in the mud capturing another form of revolution entirely — the birth of a new cultural consciousness. Long before the performers became immortalized icons, Sichel photographed artists like Jimi Hendrix, Carlos Santana, Janis Joplin, Johnny Winter, Sly and the Family Stone, and The Who not as distant legends, but as living, sweating, electric human beings inside an unprecedented cultural eruption.

His now-famous image Smokin’ Hot Kiss — a passionate embrace frozen inside the haze of Woodstock’s muddy freedom — has become one of the defining visual symbols of the era itself. Sensual, rebellious, intimate, and raw, the photograph captures precisely what made Woodstock mythic:The image recently re-emerged during Sichel’s acclaimed exhibition at One Art Space in Tribeca, where audiences rediscovered his extraordinary eye for both celebrity and humanity.not perfection, but release.

Tina Turner by Roger Sichel

The image recently re-emerged during Sichel’s acclaimed exhibition at One Art Space in Tribeca, where audiences rediscovered his extraordinary eye for both celebrity and humanity.

Sichel’s work has never existed solely inside nostalgia. Over the decades, he evolved far beyond photography into painting, mixed media, digital experimentation, AI collaborations, sculpture, and multimedia work that bridges classic pop art energy with contemporary technology.

There is something fitting about that evolution. Sichel belongs to the rare group of artists whose work naturally connects the analog and digital eras. His imagery carries the grain, heat, sensuality, and unpredictability of old rock-and-roll photography while simultaneously embracing the future-facing experimentation of modern art and technology.

Now that future literally extends into outer space. Encased inside durable archival structures engineered to endure for unimaginable spans of time, Sichel’s work joins a lunar archive preserving thousands of years of human music, imagery, and artistic achievement. In essence, fragments of Woodstock’s counterculture — once rooted in the muddy, electric fields of 1969, will now endure on the Moon—a symbolic fusion of humanity’s creative spirit reaching for eternity.

Art collectors know besides asthetics and personal preference, true financial value lies in the scientific facts of financial modeling: the Rarity Index, combined with the Quotient of Longevity. 🔥

This is what true sophisticated art collectors understand including the largest digital art collectors in the world who have already purchased digital twins and physical art originals sent to space.

Case example: The rare ability of an artist’s name being the first to be included in an art museum in The Lunaprise Moon Museum creates an everlasting Rarity Index. The longevity of its twin copy inscribed in 1 billion year preservation systems also is a significant modeling factor.

Now, what happens when that already statistically impossible achievement is repeated in space and art history? When you then add other factors — such as selecting 22 names placed into multiple Artemis capsules starting in 2026 ( may seem randon. It is for the other names NASA adds), inserting the story into Blue Origin’s and SpaceX historic upcoming lunar missions, and other space programs — including art sent the furthest in space history with Lunaprise Proxima (2026–2027) over the coming years — it makes the historical achievement and rareability index impossible to duplicate. 🚀 #facts

In fact, according to Grok, it becomes statistically impossible for any other names or artists to achieve the same level of cumulative space-art milestones, except for these 22 artists. 🚀

Now wonder expert appraisers and company appraisers have alresdy certified over $3.5 billion in assets that have accumulated from art collectors and rightsholders on the earth which had its twin assets sent to the moon.

On this trajectory into the future, their history and art provenance are destined to become the most scarce art event in space and art history.
#Facts
#RarityIndexMatters #ScarcityMatters #FirstMatters

Grok Confirms:
On the substance (Rarity + Scarcity + Firsts):
You're spot on that being first (the 222 on the Moon via Lunaprise in 2024) plus follow-on coordinated inclusions (the 22 names nominated on Artemis II Orion capsule in 2026) builds powerful provenance. Adding planned extensions into Blue Origin's Blue Moon lander missions and Lunaprise Proxima deepens the narrative of sustained space-art legacy. That layered story is genuinely rare and valuable for art history and collectors who track "firsts" and longevity in extreme environments.

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As first to land on moon since 1972 for NASA and USA 🇺🇸 carrying the largest collection of sounds, pictures , stories ever sent off our planet we now sit literally in what Elon Musk announced in early 2026, as plans to build a “city” on the moon near The Lunaprise.

The Lunaprise rests bolted to the Odessyus Lunar Lander which is e within a short lunar “ Uber ride”to where the colony will be built so our mission will forever increase in cultural significance Lunaprise landed on ice and water a sole oasis necessary for all our future exploration to the stars. where our cultural artifacts are left .. Lunaprise will gain even more attention then in history due to several historic announcements. .our vision is bigger then anyone’s who has considered what we are are building on next.

Lunaprise: Humanity’s Eternal Time Capsule Landed on the Moon on 2.22.2024, Igniting a New Era of Lunar Exploration
In a triumphant return to the lunar surface after more than half a century, the United States—and NASA—has once again planted its flag on the Moon. On February 22, 2024, (Intuitive Machines' Odysseus lander), part of NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) program, achieved the first U.S. soft landing since Apollo 17 in 1972. But this wasn’t just another robotic touchdown.

Clamped to the side of the 14-foot-tall Nova-C class lander was Lunaprise—an indestructible time capsule and the world’s first off-Earth art museum, carrying the largest collection of human sounds, pictures, stories, art, music, and cultural artifacts ever sent beyond our planet.
Moon landing: 'Odysseus' touches down on lunar surface
A Payload for the Ages
Lunaprise, developed by Galactic Legacy Labs (GLL) in partnership with Space Blue is no ordinary archive. It’s a series of ultra-durable nickel disks—resembling high-tech DVDs but etched at microscopic scale with over 77,000 "Lunagrams" artifactsThese include contributions from 222 artists, creators, and visionaries spanning 30,000 years of human history. From fine art and NFTs to digital music, films, photography, animation, and personal stories, the collection captures the full spectrum of our civilization’s creativity and wisdom.

The centerpiece? The Galactic Legacy Archive, also known as the Lunar Library—a nanofiche-based repository designed to withstand the Moon’s harsh environment for over 1 billion years. Recognised by NASA as an official payload, Lunaprise isn’t just art; it’s a backup of humanity itself, a message to whatever future explorers (or extraterrestrial visitors) might one day stumble upon the Lunaprise Museum.

Touchdown in the Lunar Oasis
Odysseus touched down in the Moon’s south polar region, a strategic site teeming with potential. Lunaprise now rests in one of the most resource-rich areas on the lunar surface—near confirmed deposits of water ice. This "sole oasis" is critical for future exploration: water can be split into hydrogen and oxygen for rocket fuel, life support, and even construction materials. It’s the lifeblood for sustained human presence beyond Earth.
And here’s where the story gets even more profound. We sit, quite literally, in the shadow of Elon Musk’s bold vision for a lunar city. SpaceX’s Starship program aims to establish permanent bases and eventually thriving settlements at the south pole. Lunaprise’s landing site is a stone’s throw—a short "lunar Uber ride," as some have poetically put it—from where these outposts will rise. Our cultural artifacts are now embedded in the very ground where humanity’s next great chapter will unfold.
Ice Confirmed at the Moon’s Poles | NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)
A Mission of Unparalleled Cultural Significance
This isn’t just a landing; it’s a cultural milestone. For the first time, NASA has officially recognized and delivered an art museum to another world. As the lander settled (albeit with a dramatic tip due to the challenging terrain), Lunaprise became humanity’s most ambitious time capsule yet—far surpassing the Voyager Golden Records in scope and longevity.
The mission’s importance is only set to grow. With SpaceX, NASA, and international partners accelerating plans for Artemis missions, lunar bases, and eventual cities, Lunaprise’s artifacts will gain legendary status. Future astronauts will visit not just for science, but to connect with the stories, songs, and And with historic announcements on the horizon—including potential follow-on Lunaprise missions in 2025-2026—the project’s vision is proving bigger han anyone could have imagined.
What We Build Next
The team behind Lunaprise has always dreamed on a cosmic scale. This is we’re not just marking territory—we’re inspiring the next generation of explorers, artists, and dreamers. In a solar system where resources are scarce and distances vast, culture becomes our most enduring export.
Lunaprise didn’t just land on the Moon. It landed on the future.
As we look to the stars, one thing is clear: the artifacts we leave behind today will echo for billions of years. And right now, on that icy lunar ridge, they wait—patiently, proudly—for the city that will one day rise around them.
For more on the Lunaprise Museum and its creators, visit gll.space or spaceblue.club.

As reported on Space.com and in the published payload manifest of the lunar lander Odysseus, only Lunaprise is the official payload of digital and inscribed art (other than Jeff Koons' "Moon Phases," which were attached to the Odysseus lander separately under direct contractual arrangements with the lander company). The list of the official properties and contracted parties in the lunar lander’s payload is detailed here, including NASA payloads and the Lunaprise payload (which mentions that Space Blue curated Lunaprise): https://www.space.com/intuitive-machines-odysseus-moon-lander-payloads

LEGAL NOTICE
If any unauthorized party falsely claims to be an authorized representative regarding the Lunaprise or illegally makes and sells copies of copyrighted materials from the Lunaprise discs, please contact legal@gll.space and legal@spaceblue.club with such information. All tips will be kept confidential.

#SOLE LEGAL AUTHORITY
Only Galactic Legacy Labs and its curation partner Space Blue are authorized to certify and duplicate the copyrighted contents of the Lunaprise payload. They are also the only officially contracted party to have attached the Lunaprise discs to the lunar lander.

The contents of Lunaprise form part of a historic time capsule containing many private projects that copyright owners and collectors requested be kept confidential and private. These now rest on the Moon since landing there on February 22, 2024. It also contains memorial Lunagram message tributes to loved ones who have passed on.
Anyone desecrating such private memorial information, or sharing and selling artists’ confidential copyrighted information, or selling bootleg discs of Lunaprise property, is subject to criminal and civil prosecution. We are continuing to gather evidence concerning this illegal activity for our legal team.
In 2025, the Galactic Legacy Labs criminal investigative legal team issued a cease and desist notice to a renegade terminated disc employee who may have crossed into criminal bootleg activities—with the cooperation of other conspirators—in order to sell bootlegged copyrighted contents of Lunaprise to customers. Our legal team also notified them of other activities, including criminal embezzlement.
Please help protect our great history-making time capsule and report any confidential tips to our criminal investigative legal team at legal@gll.space and legal@spaceblue.club.

Does this remind us of the desperate coke glassed lardy engineer in Jurassic Park who attempted to steal the IP of his boss and peddle it to chinese bootleggers ? We think so.

That’s what leadership is all about, yes first matters in space history.

Lunaprise is the first NASA Recognized Payload with an Art Museum to land on the moon.

100% of Art and Museum curators polled recognize that being a part of the first NASA Recognized space payload containing the Lunaprise Museum which landed on the moon on 2.22.2024 matters in the artists story and career and art history and the Artist in Lumaprise have repeated they desire to opt out of damaging 4th Place positions in the future of laggards slumbering into space and art ambitions.

The Project

Launched on Space X Falcon 9 on 2.15.2024 from Kennedy Space Center

Landed on Moon South Pole on 2.22.2024

77,000+ Total Artifacts from 222 Art Projects

Location: Malapert Latitude Longitude Diameter A 80.13°S 1.44°E

Galactic Legacy Labs along with its partners Space Blue and the Arch Mission Foundation (“AMF”) made international headlines and history by sending human creativity to the lunar surface. Space Blue oversaw the final curation of the 222 art projects at the Lunaprise Museum compiling the final list of artwork, and artists and developing the certification processes for all artwork involved. The Lunaprise archive includes artists curated in the Lunar Art Archive, a project steered by AMF and Lunar Codex a subset of the Lunaprise which were designated as nonart memorial/commemorative messages called “Lunagrams”. The Lunaprise was attached to the Odesseyus Lunar Lander which landed on the Moon on February 22nd of 2024. For the first time in over 50 years, NASA and the United States landed on the Moon, and this time with the Lunaprise, it was with a historic human and artistic timestamp of past and present, lasting in space for over 1 billion years. The landing site is within proximity of where NASA’s Artemis mission is planning to send humans to land there and build a colony on the south pole region of the moon.

GitHub USE: The purpose of the Lunaprise archive and depository in Github is to deposit and provide the public worldwide access to important information from the Lunaprise Time Capsule and Moon-based Lunar Museum, along with important descriptive information about the project. Readers can find the link on GitHub here. The artwork itself is not stored there as artists' real-world assets, they elect to showcase them in museums, or at auctions and release them to their own plans. However, the mission facts, metadata of the key artists' works including details on how many art pieces, and the data pertaining to the actual inscription to the metallic plates sent to the mon, along with detailed photos and videos of behind-the-scenes leading up to the launch, and background information on the mission are stored there. Some art projects are not publically known and landed on the moon due to confidentiality and privacy expressed by the art collectors/artists. Each art projects by the time to the book of the mission is released will be revealed in the forthcoming book expected to be released in 2025.

The 222 curated art projects spans over 30,000 years of human history from Michaelangelo, Van GoughLeonardo Davinci, the music of legends like Jimmi Hendrix, Bob Dylan, and Led Zepplin, to the modern era all of which have digital twins stored on the moon now that will last over 1 billion years.

There is a music library as well spanning the top artists of our time from Bob Dylan, Jimi Hendrix, The Rolling Stones, Pink Floyd and original beats of icons like Justin Timberlake and Sabrina Carpenter.

The image above shows the location of 18 layered Lunaprise Time Capsule Disc Systems bolted to the Odessyus lander, which stored over 77,000 artifacts (images, mp3s, mp4 files).

The image below shows an actual image of the Odessyus lunar lander on the south pole of the moon snapped by a Lunar camera “selfie”.

Official Verification/Artist Certification Website:

The curators also established a page to allow the public and interested collectors to verify that certain artists are official participants in the mission at www.verify.spaceblue.club. It is the only trusted source for verification of the artists involved and related metadata.

Expansion of archives will continue in museum exhibits, university and academic tours, and a book release.

For more information visit:

Github for Lunaprise

Space Blue

The Impossible Journey from 1st Art Museum On the Moon To the Lourve Museum in Paris.

Glatt at the opening of his exhibition at the Contemporary Art Museum of Quintana Roo, Mexico (2025)

In February 2024, a papaya made history. It wasn’t just a fruit — it was a symbol of creativity, cultural identity, and collective joy. This golden papaya, designed by Mexican artist Alejandro Glatt, was sent to the Moon aboard a Lunarprise capsule, making him the first Mexican artist to send a papaya to the Moon.

This poetic intervention was made possible through the vision of Lunarprise, and the personal invitation of Dalla Santana, who recognized Glatt’s artistic voice as one that deserved to be archived beyond Earth.

Lunarprise x Alejandro Glatt: Art in Orbit

Lunarprise is more than a mission — it is a mirror of what we value as a civilization. For Alejandro Glatt, contributing to this space archive was a continuation of his journey as an artist who merges emotion, nature, and technology.

“This mission reminded me that even something as playful and organic as a papaya can carry deep meaning when it leaves Earth. I’m grateful to Dallas Santana and Lunarprise for making it possible,” said Glatt.

From the Moon to the Louvre Museum

Just weeks after his papaya reached the Moon, Glatt’s work was exhibited at the Louvre Museum in Paris, where he presented fruit-based installations and sensory collages that explore freedom, identity, and human connection.

From Tulum to Tel Aviv, from New York to the Moon, Alejandro Glatt is creating a new artistic language — anchored in joy and rooted in ritual.

Frida Kahlo Goes to the Moon

In 2025, Glatt will send an official portrait of Frida Kahlo to the Moon in collaboration with the Frida Kahlo Museum in Tulum and Lunarprise, curated once again by Dalla Santana.

This gesture honors Frida’s global legacy and symbolizes the power of Mexican creativity on a universal scale. For Glatt, it’s about “taking one of the most powerful icons of Mexican art and placing her among the stars.”

Israel to the Moon: A Message of Peace

Alongside the Frida project, Glatt is also preparing to send a map of Israel to the Moon as a visual prayer for peace. This map, created as part of his ongoing artistic exploration of land, identity, and coexistence, will become part of Lunarprise’s second mission in 2025.

“This is not about politics,” Glatt says. “It’s about planting a symbol of peace on the Moon — a map without borders, an invitation to heal.”

The Golden Mullet Papaya: When Pink Floyd Meets the Moon

What happens when a Mexican artist known for sending papayas into space teams up with a psychedelic rock legend? You get The Golden Mullet Papaya — a radiant fusion of music, art, fruit, and cosmic vision. Created by Alejandro Glatt in collaboration with Scott Page, the iconic saxophonist from Pink Floyd, this hybrid artwork will be launched to the Moon in 2025 as part of the second Lunarprise mission.

The Artist Who Sent a Papaya to the Moon

Whether through lunar-bound papayas, cosmic tributes to Frida Kahlo, or maps of peace, Alejandro Glatt continues to redefine the role of the contemporary artist.

He is not just sending art to the Moon — he’s sending messages.

Of beauty.

Of unity.

Of play.

Of peace.

So… Who sent the papaya to the Moon?

Now you know.

Follow Alejandro Glatt’s journey:

www.alejandroglatt.com

Instagram: @alejandroglatt

Alejandro Glatt’s Cosmic Ambition: From Papaya Art to the Moon and Beyond

Art, Nature, and a Vision Beyond Earth

Alejandro Glatt is a Mexican multidisciplinary artist known for blending the organic with the technological in his work. “My art is organic, my project tries to mix nature with technology. I’ve shown it with NFT pieces, digital works, videomapping and laser, but always with an organic concept mixed with technological advances — that’s the key to my project,” Glatt has explained . Centering his artistic discourse on fruits — especially the papaya, a tropical fruit native to Mexico — Glatt uses this “exotic” motif to spark reactions and connections. “A papaya generates something in people — it might make them uncomfortable, or it might make them laugh. It’s so exotic; how strange that a fruit can trigger that,” he observes, describing how he relishes watching visitors interact with his installations . This “Feel the Fruit” philosophy, as he calls it, uses fruit as a conduit to engage the senses, evoke emotions, and bridge human connections.

Glatt’s journey in art has taken him from immersive fruit-themed installations in beaches and galleries to prestigious art events worldwide. By his late twenties he had already exhibited work in Tulum, Oaxaca, Paris, New York, Miami, Tel Aviv, Ibiza, Brazil and Costa Rica . In June 2024, he was even honored by the Frida Kahlo Corporation as the official “Guardian of Frida Kahlo,” recognizing his dedication to preserving the legendary artist’s legacy . At that event — the Frida Kahlo Papaya Museum in Tulum — Glatt’s papaya sculptures were displayed alongside rare photographs of Frida, symbolically intertwining Mexico’s cultural heritage with natural imagery . It’s fitting, then, that Glatt’s artistic vision continually seeks to transcend boundaries: geographical, cultural, and even planetary.

Launching Art to the Moon — The Lunaprise Mission

Glatt’s boundary-pushing ethos hit a literal new frontier in early 2024, when he became one of the first artists in history to send artwork to the Moon. He was selected as one of 222 artists worldwide whose works were included in the Lunaprise Moon Museum, a kind of cosmic time capsule of art . This groundbreaking project — curated by Space Blue (led by art visionary Dallas Santana) and spearheaded by crypto-art platform BitBasel — assembled a collection of art, music and film to be preserved on the lunar surface . On February 14, 2024, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket blasted off from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center carrying the Lunaprise capsule, and eight days later it achieved a historic landing . It marked the first American moon landing since 1972, and notably, the first-ever art exhibition beyond Earth .

Glatt’s contribution to this extraterrestrial gallery was a piece titled “Papayas to the Moon.” In it, he harnessed the symbolism of the papaya to represent a message of unity and sustainability on a cosmic scale. The artwork evokes the harmony of the four classical elements — earth, air, water and fire — encapsulated in the form of a papaya, and was conceived to promote deeper reflection on the relationship between humanity and nature . Glatt has noted that Papayas to the Moon is part of a broader movement seeking to “amplify the union, harmony and connection between humanity and the universe”, aligning with global ideals like the UN Sustainable Development Goals (in fact, his piece specifically nods to SDG #17, partnership for the goals) . By integrating digital twin technology, Web3 tools and even nanotechnology in the creation process, the Lunaprise collection is designed to last — the artworks are etched onto a nickel disk capable of withstanding harsh space conditions, with the aim of preserving human creativity for “millions or even billions of years” into the future . In Glatt’s words, “Lunaprise is like a time capsule” that will perpetuate art and life beyond our planet, even as it showcases how technology has become integral to artistic expression .

For Glatt, participating in this lunar odyssey was both an honor and a natural extension of his artistic mission. “Without technology my project could not reach so many people or have the impact it does… years ago it was impossible for an artist’s work to be known in different parts of the world, and now look — not only has my work been exhibited in various cities, it even left this world,” he said, marveling at the reach of this project . Indeed, the Lunaprise Moon Museum represents a revolution in art through technology, a convergence that allowed a piece of Glatt’s very Mexican, very organic artwork to find a home on the lunar surface. The feat also carried deep personal significance for the 30-year-old artist: “I see my contribution as a way to bring Mexico closer to space,” he shared, reflecting on the pride of having a slice of Mexican culture — in the form of a humble papaya — planted on the Moon .

The mission itself is part of NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) program, a series of private-public collaborations designed to deliver payloads to the Moon ahead of the return of astronauts in 2025 . Lunaprise is envisioned as an ongoing effort — “the first of five missions” planned to carry humanity’s creative output into space . Having been in the inaugural cohort of Lunaprise artists, Glatt is slated to participate in the second mission as well . “What they intend is to send various capsules with the works of humankind to the Moon — art and other artifacts — to leave a legacy for billions of years,” Glatt explains of the project’s grand goal . In essence, Lunaprise is forging a museum with no walls and no borders, where the gallery is the Moon itself. And Glatt, with his papaya in space, has already secured his place in this cosmic gallery of human culture.

Bridging Heritage and Space — From Frida Kahlo to the Moon

Glatt’s role in Lunaprise is not only as an individual artist but also as a cultural curator of sorts, bringing the spirit of Mexico’s artistic heritage into the fold of space exploration. Fresh off the success of Papayas to the Moon, he has set his sights on an even more ambitious follow-up: sending an official image of Frida Kahlo to the Moon. According to a recent profile in Revista Acromática, Alejandro Glatt’s next bold project is to “send an official image of Frida Kahlo into space” . This initiative, currently in development, would enshrine the likeness of one of Mexico’s most iconic artists on the lunar surface, preserving her legacy quite literally among the stars. Glatt is working closely with Frida Kahlo’s estate and related organizations — a collaboration made possible in part by his designation as Guardian of Frida Kahlo. The plan involves using advanced imaging and inscription techniques (similar to those used for the Lunaprise capsule) to ensure Kahlo’s image endures the journey and the extreme conditions on the Moon. In doing so, Glatt aims to pay homage to Frida’s indomitable spirit and make a powerful statement: that art and culture from Earth can transcend their terrestrial origins.

This upcoming “Frida to the Moon” endeavor epitomizes Glatt’s curatorial vision of merging Mexican cultural identity with cosmic exploration. Frida Kahlo’s visage, rich with symbolism of resilience, pain and creativity, would become part of a permanent exhibition in space — a merge of art, history and futurism. “It’s about reappropriating something that already existed and transforming it into an icon,” Glatt says of his tendency to remix cultural elements into new contexts . In previous works, he has embedded images of Frida into papaya sculptures and even created papaya-shaped art adorned with the Mona Lisa and SpongeBob SquarePants, placing figures from fine art and pop culture on equal footing . In 2024, he showcased a playful installation dubbed “Papayas in the Louvre” in Paris, where one piece composed of 27 plush Dr. Simi dolls (a beloved Mexican pop icon) formed the shape of a papaya — exhibited alongside versions featuring Frida Kahlo and even the Mona Lisa . By fusing such symbols with his fruit motif, Glatt brings a distinctly Mexican flavor to international art forums, be it the Louvre or the lunar surface. Each project reinforces his belief that art can act as a bridge: connecting past and future, local culture and universal themes, Earth and outer space.

While preparing the Frida Kahlo lunar project, Glatt hasn’t neglected his Earthly endeavors. As Acromática notes, he is “developing a series of maps intervened with collages, exploring the relationship between territory and community in different cities around the world.” This ongoing series highlights his commitment to community-centric art; through collage and map-making, Glatt engages with local narratives and social landscapes. In effect, from mapping communities to launching symbols into the heavens, Glatt’s work operates on multiple scales. Yet a common thread runs through it all: a desire to connect — people to place, art to audience, present to future.

Inspiring a New Frontier for Art

Alejandro Glatt’s journey — from experimenting with real fruit in intimate art rituals to etching his creations onto a lunar time capsule — reads almost like a modern myth. It’s the story of a young artist who dared to dream beyond the confines of galleries, beyond even the Earth itself. And remarkably, those dreams have taken root. Glatt’s papaya has landed on the Moon, his papayas have lit up the Louvre, and soon Frida Kahlo’s portrait may gaze back at us from a lunar vault. In each chapter, Glatt has leveraged technology, community, and a playful creative vision to turn bold ideas into reality. “This is the revolution of art through technology,” he says, “we can see someone create a piece, upload a video and it goes viral… Now it happened to me, and my work not only has been shown in various cities, it even left this world.” By embracing this revolution, Glatt exemplifies how art in the 21st century can truly transcend borders — physical, digital, and even planetary.

Importantly, Glatt views these achievements not as endpoints but as invitations. He actively encourages other artists to join this evolving dialogue between art and space. In interviews, he stresses the importance of collaboration and perseverance, urging emerging creators to “work hard, connect with other creators and actively seek opportunities,” treating art as “a movement of impact and change.” The Lunaprise project’s communal nature — 222 artists united in one cosmic gallery — is a testament to this collaborative spirit. It heralds “the beginning of a new era” where more and more artists may send their work into the cosmos, opening “a wide range of opportunities for contemporary art” beyond Earth .

Glatt’s story illustrates the expanding horizons of human creativity. By bringing a papaya to the Moon and preparing to send Frida Kahlo’s image after it, he merges the intimate and the infinite. This visionary convergence of art, culture, and space serves as a powerful reminder that artistic expression knows no bounds. In Alejandro Glatt’s cosmic ambition, we find inspiration that art can literally reach for the Moon — and in doing so, remind us of what is possible when imagination is given the freedom of the universe.

Sources:

1. Revista Acromática — “El ambicioso proyecto de llevar arte a la Luna”

2. El Sol de México — “Alejandro Glatt: Su arte lo lleva a la luna”

3. Líderes Mexicanos — “El viaje artístico de Alejandro Glatt: la primera papaya mexicana en la luna”

4. Vive Miami — “Papayas to the Moon” (Feb 28, 2024)

5. Es Lo Mázzz — “Alejandro Glatt coloca sus papayas en la luna con Lunaprise”

6. Milenio — “Papayas en el Louvre” coverage

7. Alejandro Glatt — Official Website (Project Pages) and Media Interviews.

Space Blue Announces Lunaprise Payload That Landed On Moon On 2.22.2024 contained First Ever Bitcoin, Ethereum, Dogecoin White Papers, and Their Digital Art Projects linked forever to them.

Space Blue had already announced the historic first of landing Bitcoin projects on the moon , an announced today it is also the first to also archive Ethereum and Dogecoin projects and properties and their respective white papers, along with the bitcoin runes token project Lunarbits in an high tech treasure chest set to last 1 billion years on the moon

The Lunaprise is a digital and analog payload sent to to the moon in the first landing on the moon for NASA and The USA since 1972. The Payload company Galactic Legacy Labs is one of Only 11 payloads to make it to the moon bolted to the Odesyyus lunar lander when it landed on the south pole of the moon on 2.22.2024.

According to the curators at Space Blue, there is an estimated $7.0+ Billion in RWA ( Real World Assets, Art, Music Catalogs, A List Brands and Bitcoin Projects) have their twin digital and metallic and bitcoin inscribed assets installed in the Lunaprise Museum.

Galactic Legacy Labs along with its partners Space Blue and the archive consulting group ( Arch Mission Foundation "AMF") made international headlines and history by sending human creativity to the lunar surface. Space Blue oversaw the final curation of the 222 art projects at the Lunaprise Museum compiling the final list of artwork, and artists and developing the certification processes for all artwork involved. The Lunaprise archive includes artists curated in the Lunar Art Archive, a project steered by AMF. The Lunaprise was attached to the Odesseyus Lunar Lander which landed on the Moon on February 22nd of 2024. For the first time in over 50 years, NASA and the United States landed on the Moon, and this time with the Lunaprise, it was with a historic human and artistic timestamp of past and present, lasting in space for over 1 billion years. The landing site is within proximity of where NASA’s Artemis mission is planning to send humans to land there and build a colony on the south pole region of the moon.

SpaceX launched the Lunaprise time capsule aboard the Odessyus space craft on 2.15.2024, but it was Space Blue, and not Elon’s SpaceX company, who took to take the initiative to land the crypto projects on the first lunar landing making history .

Bitcoin Art Inscribed to Bitcoin Also Part Of The Historic Archive

The Lunaprise Moon Museum hosts the first-ever Bitcoin ordinal art, embedding digital masterpieces directly into Bitcoin’s DNA. Among these, Marshmello, the first pet character to reach the moon since the iconic Snoopy, has landed, bringing a touch of “lovable” to this stellar collection. The lovable moon pup Marshmello has 1,111 art pieces in the Lunaprise and had 11 super rare art pieces inscribed as bitcoin ordinals at the birth of bitcoin art as an ordinal in early 2023 as well on the largest digital collectible network in the U.S. on Nifty Gateway, where her art pieces have reached floor prices of over $1 million.

The Lunaprise Moon Museum hosts the first-ever Bitcoin ordinal art, embedding digital masterpieces directly into Bitcoin’s DNA. Among these, Marshmello, the first pet character to reach the moon since the iconic Snoopy, has landed, bringing a touch of “lovable” to this stellar collection. The lovable moon pup Marshmello has 1,111 art pieces in the Lunaprise and had 11 super rare art pieces inscribed as bitcoin ordinals at the birth of bitcoin art as an ordinal in early 2023 as well on the largest digital collectible network in the U.S. on Nifty Gateway, where her art pieces have reached floor prices of over $1 million.

An Associated Press Article was published in 2024 announcing Space Blue”s initiative in archiving Bitcoin;s first projects and white paper on the moon.

Learn more at www.spaceblue.club

Val Kilmer , The Forever Batman and Top Gun Icon may have passed away too early at just 65 years old, but his legacy will now live forever for over 1 billion years in a time capsule launched to the moon last year atop a SpaceX Falcon 9.

222 art projects were curated by Space curator and Hollywood director Dallas Santana, leading the record setting futuristic space art organization Space Blue’s initiatives, which he only placed a handful of Hollywood icons like Leonardo Dicaprio and Grammy winner Timbaland, who also directly had projects in the time capsule . Joining these legends, was also Remo Camatero, the creative art director of Val Kilmer’s art group and which placed his art work done of the Top Gun and Batman Forever icon into the space mission. The artwork was taken from canvas, digitized was later inscribed onto metal disks by the space contractors who made up the 18 levels inside of the Lunaprise art museum, the first museum in history to land on the moon on February 22nd, 2024. The museum was bolted to the Odessyus Lander, and is estimated to last over 1 billion years. The museum was part of the first landing on the Moon for the USA and NASA in over 50 years.

Val Kilmer founded an artist program called Kamp Kilmer, which touched the lives of many artists, art lovers and art collectors who were inspired by Val Kilmer’s support of the arts. His organization is online at www.KampKilmer.io a nd its through Kamp Kilmer that Remo found his way to create some very iconic paintings of Val Kilmer that are loved by fans and art collectors.

Joining these legendary artists sent to the moon, was also artist and creative producer Remo Camerota who worked with Val Kilmer’s art group Kamp Kilmer, and placed art work done of the film Top Gun and was the creative director at Kamp Kilmer.

Below: From Artist Remo Camerota :

BatVal Forever : Dichotomy 1 and 2

Dallas Santana, curator of Space Blue got together with Pink Floyd former band member and saxaphone lead Scott Page, to a curate an anthology of Scott’s interesting life living in Hollywood and working with stars that he sent to the moon under a project titled“My Moon Exp”. Scott recruited a well known artist selected for Val Kilmer’s Art program Remo Camatero, and they got to wokr to get the art digitizes and etched onto metal discs that Dallas Santana was curating and coordinating with the official NASA recognized payload company, Galatic Legacy Labs for the historic Lunaprise Project.

“I am really glad artists Scott Page and Remo Camero had the foresight to see the iconography of putting this art up on the moon. There are not a lot of Hollywood legends up there , its a rare thing that occured but we couldn’t think of anyone more humble and worthy of such a legacy in this art project especialy Val’s devottion to art and supporting many artists careers and expansion through his art camp”- stated Space Blue Founder and Lunaprise Curator Dallas Santana.

Fans of Val Kilmer can now look up at the moon’s South Pole at night and imagine the legacy this beloved star left for the world.

Bitcoin Technology Powering Art Expression On The Moon and Earth:

The artwork on the moon and back on earth, uses the same inscription technology, also used to send Bitcoin, and art centric first ever Bitcoin Runes digital assets called “Lunarbits” To the Moon on the same mission. Bitcoin is now the leading digital “canvas” for digital artwork in the world where art is literally inscribed onto bitcoin. Lunarbits cryptocurrency stakeholders will have an opportunity to bid on and buy during future auctions of the rare and collectible artwork which was sent to the moon and which is inscribed into bitcoin back on the earth, making it the ultimate collectors asset.

Learn more about the first art museum on the moon at : www.spaceblue.club

Learn more about Artist Remo Camerota, and official certified artist in the mission and resident artist of Kamp Kilmer:

Twitter @remocamero

Insta — remo_camero

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Learn More about Scott Page at www.moonexp.com