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Art and Science: the Perfect Combination ~
Stories of Space for Art projects by our friend Sebastián Musso in Argentina
Sebastián Musso, part of the Space for Art Foundation community in Argentina, has always believed in the power of art as a tool to communicate science. In 2019, for the 50th Anniversary of the Moon Landing, he organized an exhibition of paintings that were displayed in various venues in Mar del Plata, La Plata, San Martín de los Andes, and Tupungato (Argentina), and in Antofagasta (Chile), through 2024. Art galleries, science museums, cafés, planetariums, or vineyards all became settings for a combination of art celebrating science and space exploration — and the latter becoming even more beautiful through art.
For the Argos Mission (Brazil – 2025), the artistic presence was even stronger. Four artists from Mar del Plata—Sergio Ralli, Silvia Novoa, Pablo Lizalde, and Laura Vásquez—embellished the mission coveralls worn by the three crew members during the 6 days of the analog space experience. Julia Moreno Artigas also sent a hand-painted shirt from Spain, featuring a Martian Valles Marineris on the front.
Postcards From Mars
Together with the Space for Art Foundation, we encouraged children from different countries (Argentina, Chile, Spain, Mexico, Peru, Romania) to draw postcards as if they were on Mars and write to their loved ones on Earth. Not only did the drawings show imagination, but they also reflected the concepts learned after the workshops that were given before and during these artistic sessions. Children in schools, in their homes, and also adults who joined the activity painted the postcards using different techniques. Some schools took advantage of the project to organize exhibitions, to dress the children as astronauts, and to greatly expand the educational proposal, and there were even some that awarded prizes to the postcards that a jury of teachers decided were the best. Nicole Stott was present in all the activities with a beautiful and inspiring video greeting.During the Mission, Victoria Cola, one of the crew members, painted a mural in their Habitat Marte (Natal – Brazil), leaving there the memory of a Martian landscape and of the activity in August 2025.
This first analog mission in South America included a person with a disability and this drew the attention of many people, including artists. Illustrators from Argentina, Uruguay, and Mexico joined a graphic campaign supporting access to space for people with disabilities.
Galileo Base
For the future, the Galileo Base is a facility that aims to be a space simulation habitat that provides a dynamic simulated environment. It could function as a simulated work setting for a space station orbiting Earth, Mars, the Moon, or a natural satellite of Jupiter or Saturn. Its interactive maps, screens acting as windows to the outside, and the simulation of instruments in the base will offer the possibility of simulating work in different space environments, mainly for educational purposes - including supporting more Space for Art projects.
Space simulation habitats are places for learning and technological development. They exist all over the world, run by universities, foundations, linked to space agencies, or as private ventures. In South America, there are only two: Cydonia in Bogotá (Colombia) and Habitat Marte in Natal (Brazil). Will the Galileo Base be the first habitat in Argentina? We will find out in 2026.
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