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'''''Per aspera ad astra''''' (or, less commonly, '''''ad astra per aspera''''') is a [[List of Latin phrases|Latin phrase]] meaning "through hardships to the stars". The phrase is one of the many [[Latin]] sayings that use the [[idiom|expression]] ''[[Ad astra (phrase)|ad astra]]'', meaning "to the stars".
[[File:Pad_34_Ad_Astra_plaque.jpg|thumb|300px|"Ad astra per aspera", [[commemorative plaque|plaque]] in memory of the [[Apollo 1#Launch Complex 34|crew of Apollo 1]]]]
[[File:Per aspera ad astra, 1894.jpg|thumb|300px|"Per aspera ad astra", from ''Finland in the Nineteenth Century'', 1894]]
[[File:Coat of Arms of Cirebon (1930).svg|thumb|300px|Cirebon's Dutch-era coat of arms, which contains the phrase.]]


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==Uses==
Various organizations and groups use this expression and its variants.

===Governmental entities===
* [[Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://home.att.net/~david.danner/militaria/schwerin.htm|title=Decorations of the Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080829222929/http://home.att.net/~david.danner/militaria/schwerin.htm|archive-date=2008-08-29}}</ref>
* State of [[Kansas]] (''Ad astra per aspera'')<ref>{{cite web|date=March 2014|title=Seal of Kansas|url=https://www.kshs.org/kansapedia/seal-of-kansas/18266|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200706001551/https://www.kshs.org/kansapedia/seal-of-kansas/18266|archive-date=2020-07-06|access-date=2020-07-06|website=Kansapedia|publisher=[[Kansas Historical Society]]}}</ref>
* Municipality of [[Cirebon|Cheribon]], [[Dutch East Indies|Netherlands East Indies]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://igvbestanden.files.wordpress.com/2017/11/nederlands-indische_gemeentewapens_1933.pdf |title=Nederlandsch-Indische Gemeentewapens |publisher=NV Mij Vorkink|date=September 1933 |access-date=2019-07-23}}</ref>
* City of [[Gouda, South Holland|Gouda]], [[Netherlands|The Netherlands]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.therightproductions.nl/hogeraadvanadel/index.php?id=109&wapen=1080 |title=Gouda in the official Dutch heraldic records|publisher=High Council of the Nobility (Hoge Raad van Adel), The Hague |access-date=2019-10-28}}</ref>
* Honored Scientist of [[Armenia]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://president.am/files/legislation/1247.pdf|title=Honored Scientist of Armenia|access-date=24 September 2020}}</ref>

===Military and government===
* [[Department of Civil Aviation (Thailand)|Department of Civil Aviation]], [[Thailand]]<ref>[http://www.aviation.go.th/template/logo.htm Department of Civil Aviation Emblems] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090427091520/http://www.aviation.go.th/template/logo.htm |date=27 April 2009 }}</ref>
* Military Technical Academy in [[Bucharest, Romania]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.mta.ro/motto.php |title=Academia Tehnica Militara |publisher=Mta.ro |access-date=2013-12-21 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070703150619/http://www.mta.ro/motto.php |archive-date=2007-07-03 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
* [[National Defence Academy of Latvia]]<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.naa.mil.lv/en.aspx |title=Archived copy |access-date=2017-01-26 |archive-date=2017-02-09 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170209232433/http://www.naa.mil.lv/en.aspx |url-status=dead }}</ref>
* [[South African Air Force]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.saairforce.co.za/the-airforce/structure/sandf-emblems |title=The South African Air Force Emblems |publisher=Saairforce.co.za |access-date=2013-12-21}}</ref>
* [[Spanish Air and Space Force]]
* Hon. [[Julie Payette]], 29th Governor General of Canada<ref>{{cite web|url=https://twitter.com/RideauHall/status/914838574390026240 |title=OSGG/BSGG @RideauHall Twitter |publisher=twitter.com |access-date=2017-10-04}}</ref>
* [[Royal Life Guards (Denmark)]]
*[[Royal Australian Air Force]] (''per Ardua ad Astra'')<ref>{{Cite web|last=Force|first=Australian Air|date=3 November 2017|title=Badge|url=https://www.airforce.gov.au/about-us/your-air-force/brand/badge|access-date=2021-12-10|website=www.airforce.gov.au|language=en}}</ref>
* [[House Order of the Wendish Crown]]
*Crew 2020, [[Mürwik|Federal German Naval Officers Academy]]

===Literature===
* In [[James Joyce]]'s "[[A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man]]"<ref>{{cite book |last1=Joyce |first1=James |title=A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man |page=222 |url=https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Page%3AA_Portrait_of_the_Artist_as_a_Young_Man_(Huebsch_1916).djvu/230}}</ref>
*Pioneer of astronautics, engineer [[Luigi Gussalli]] used the sentence at the beginning of his publications<ref>{{Cite book|last=Caprara|first=Giovanni|title=Luigi Gussalli pioniere dello spazio, Luigi Gussalli Space Pioneer|publisher=Fondazione Civiltà Bresciana|year=2002|isbn=88-86670-35-4|location=Brescia|pages=209–627|language=Italian, English}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|last=Luigi.|first=GUSSALLI|url=http://worldcat.org/oclc/559102788|title=Si può già tentare un viaggio dalla terra alla luna? Relazione di esperienze eseguite coi porpulsori a doppia reazione, etc. [With plates.].|date=1923|oclc=559102788}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|last=Gussalli|first=Luigi|title=Astronautica e propulsori a reazione|publisher=Società Editrice Libraria|year=1930|location=Milan|pages=1|language=Italian}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|last=Gussalli|first=Luigi|title=Propulsori a reazione per l'Astronautica|publisher=Giulio Vannini|year=1941|location=Brescia|pages=9|language=Italian}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|last=Gussalli|first=Luigi|title=I viaggi interplanetari per mezzo delle radiazioni solari|publisher=Giulio Vannini|year=1946|location=Brescia|pages=11|language=Italian}}</ref>
* In [[Harper Lee]]'s "[[To Kill a Mockingbird]]", it was quoted as the motto of Maycomb, during the school play.
* In [[Pierce Brown]]'s "Red Rising" book series it is a common phrase used by the Golds of The Society.
* In [[M.L.Rio]]'s ''[[If We Were Villains]]'' it is the motto of the Dellecher Academy.
* In [[Kurt Vonnegut]]'s ''[[The Sirens of Titan]]'', it was quoted as both the motto of Martian Imperial Commandos, a unit within the larger Martian Army, in addition to being the motto of Kansas, U.S.A., Earth, Solar System, Milky Way.
* In [[Kenta Shinohara]]'s ''[[Astra Lost in Space]]'', it is inscribed on a plaque on the bridge of the ship that the crew subsequently decided to name the ''Astra''.<ref>{{Cite comic |cartoonist = [[Kenta Shinohara]] |title =Astra Lost in Space |volume =1 |issue =2 |date =23 August 2016 |publisher =[[Viz Media]] |page =24 |panel =4}}</ref>
* On the ''[[SCP Foundation]]'' website, the ''Ad Astra Per Aspera'' canon is a series of stories set in the 21st and 22nd centuries where humanity has been forced to abandon Earth, establishing settlements elsewhere in the [[Solar System]] and political relations with extraterrestrial life.<ref>{{cite web|last1=NatVoltaic|title=Ad Astra Per Aspera Hub|url=http://www.scp-wiki.wikidot.com/ad-astra-per-aspera-hub|website=[[SCP Foundation]]|date=16 August 2019}}</ref>

====Latin variants====
* Virgil's ''[[Aeneid]]'', IX, 641
* [[Lucius Annaeus Seneca]], ''[[Hercules furens]]'': "non est ad astra mollis e terris via"

===Music===
* The subtitle of [[Moritz Moszkowski]]'s set of fifteen ''Études de Virtuosité'' for piano, op. 72 (published 1903).
* The title of a march by [[:nl:Ernst Urbach|Ernst Urbach]] op. 4 (1906).
* The subtitle of [[Charles Villiers Stanford]]'s Piano Trio No. 3, Op. 158 (1918).
* The subtitle of [[Sergei Bortkiewicz]]'s 3rd piano concerto (1926).
* The title of the [[Per Aspera Ad Astra (album)|fourth album]] by ambient music duo [[Stars of the Lid]] (1998).
* The title of a song by [[Spiritual Beggars]] from their album ''Ad Astra'' (2000).
* The title of a song by [[Haggard (band)|Haggard]] from their album "Eppur Si Muove" (2004).
* [[Acceptance (band)|Acceptance]] has an instrumental track on their ''[[Phantoms (Acceptance album)|Phantoms]]'' album titled "Ad Astra Per Aspera" (2005).
* The title of the [[Ad Astra per Aspera (album)|second album]] (2011) by Abandon Kansas.
* ''Per Aspera Ad Aspera'', the name of a best-of album by the band [[ASP (band)|ASP]] (2014).
* The title of an album of marches by the [[Norwegian Air Force Band|Royal Norwegian Air Force Band]].
* The title of a composition by [[Hasaan Ibn Ali]] from his second Atlantic recording, never released, the master tapes of which were destroyed in the Atlantic warehouse fire of 1978.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.jazzdiscography.com/Leaders/AliHasaanIbn-ldr.php |title=Hasaan Ibn Ali Leader Entry |access-date=2014-07-18 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20140718010346/http://www.jazzdiscography.com/Leaders/AliHasaanIbn-ldr.php |archive-date=2014-07-18 |url-status=live }}</ref>
* The subtitle of an instrumental song by the symphonic metal band [[Nightwish]] (2020).
* The lyrics of the song 'Aspera' by [[Erin McKeown]] on her album ''[[We Will Become Like Birds]]'' (2005)
*The title of an album by the doom metal band Rise to the Sky (2021).

===Educational and research institutions===

====Australia====
*[[Queenwood School for Girls]], Mosman NSW
*[[Nuriootpa High School]], Barossa Valley, South Australia
*[[Woodville High School]], Adelaide
*[[Albury High School]], Albury, New South Wales<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.albury-h.schools.nsw.edu.au/ |title=Albury High School |publisher=Albury-h.schools.nsw.edu.au |access-date=2013-12-21}}</ref>
*Girton Grammar School, Bendigo, Victoria

====Austria====
*[[University of Klagenfurt]]

====Azerbaijan====
*[[Azerbaijan Medical University]]

====Botswana====
* [[St. Joseph's College, Kgale]]

====Ecuador====
*[[Instituto Nacional Mejía]], Quito, Ecuador

====Estonia====
*Keila-Joa Boarding School, [[Türisalu]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.keila-joa.edu.ee |title=Keila-Joa Boarding School |publisher=Keila-joa.edu.ee |access-date=2013-12-21 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131224114939/http://www.keila-joa.edu.ee/ |archive-date=2013-12-24 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
*Jakob Westholm Secondary School, [[Tallinn]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://westholm.ee/index.php?id=14453 |title=Jakob Westholm Secondary School |publisher=westholm.ee |access-date=2014-11-05}}</ref>

====Honduras====
*Escuela Nacional de Música, Tegucigalpa
*Instituto Salesiano San Miguel, Tegucigalpa

====India====
*Clarence High School, Bangalore, Karnataka, India – Motto of Redwood House (Ad Astra)
*St. Augustine's High School, kalimpong, District:Darjeeling, India
*The Frank Anthony Public School, Kolkata, India
* The Frank Anthony Public School, Delhi, India – Motto of Ranger House
*St Joseph's High School, Dharwad, Karnataka, India
*Antonio D'souza High School, Mumbai, India
*Technology Research and Incubation Centre, Dimapur, Nagaland

====Jamaica====
*Immaculate Conception High School, St. Andrew
*Mount Alvernia High School, Montego Bay

====Japan====
* St. Francis Church, Tokyo, West-Hachioji, Gnosis Essene (HP)

==== Macau ====
*Postgraduate Association of [[University of Macau]], Macau

====Maldives====
*[[MNDF Fire and Rescue Services Training School]], K.Viligili

====New Zealand====
*[[Rotorua Boys' High School]], [[Rotorua]]
*[[Southwell School]], [[Hamilton, New Zealand|Hamilton]]

====Nigeria====
*[[Ilupeju College]], [[Ilupeju, Lagos]]
*[[Lagos Secondary Commercial Academy]], [[LASCA]]
*[[Kalabari National College]], [[Buguma, Rivers State]]
*[[Oriwu Model College]], [[Igbogbo, Ikorodu]]
*Federal University, Lokoja, Kogi state.

====Norway====
*[[Stavanger Cathedral School]], Stavanger
*Sortland videregående skole, Nordland
*Lillehammer videregående skole
*[[Norwegian University of Science and Technology]] (NTNU)

====Pakistan====
*St. [https://www.stpatrickscollege.edu.pk/ St Patrick's College, Karachi]

====Paraguay====
*[[Universidad Autónoma de Asunción (university)|Universidad Autónoma de Asunción]]

====Philippines====
*Far Eastern University – [[Nicanor Reyes Medical Foundation]], Quezon City
*St. John Paul II College of Davao, Davao City
*Rosevale School, Cagayan de Oro City
*Juan R. Liwag Memorial High School, Gapan City
*Cagayan State University, Tuguegarao City

==== Portugal ====

* Astronomy, Astrophysics and Astronautics student's association (SAC) – Coimbra (Academic association of Coimbra)

====Romania====
*Colegiul Național "Horea, Cloșca și Crișan"<ref>{{Cite web|title=Colegiul National HCC Alba Iulia|url=http://hcc.ro/|access-date=2021-02-03|website=hcc.ro}}</ref>[[Alba Iulia]]
*Mihai Eminescu High School,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cn-eminescu.ro |title=Colegiul Național Mihai Eminescu |publisher=cn-eminescu.ro | access-date=2014-02-23}}</ref> [[Suceava]]
*Colegiul National "Andrei Saguna"<ref>{{cite web|url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unirea_National_College_(Bra%C8%99ov) |title=Colegiul Naţional "Unirea", Braşov |access-date=2013-12-21}}</ref>{{Circular reference|date=April 2022}} [[Brașov]]
*Colegiul Național "Doamna Stanca"<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.doamnastanca.ro |title=Colegiul Naţional "Doamna Stanca", Braşov |publisher=Doamnastanca.ro |access-date=2013-12-21}}</ref> [[Făgăraș]]
*[[Alexandru Papiu Ilarian High School]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.papiu.ro |title=Colegiul Naţional Alexandru Papiu Ilarian |publisher=Papiu.ro |access-date=2013-12-21}}</ref> [[Târgu Mureș]]
*[[Andrei Mureşanu High School]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cnam.ro |title=Colegiul Național Andrei Mureșanu |publisher=Cnam.ro |access-date=2013-12-21}}</ref> [[Bistrița]]
*{{ill|Márton Áron Főgimnázium|ro}}, Csíkszereda (Liceul Teoretic "Márton Áron", Miercurea-Ciuc)
*[[Ovidius High School]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.liceulovidius.ro/ |title=Liceul Teoretic Ovidius |publisher=liceulovidius.ro |
access-date=2014-07-01}}</ref> [[Constanta|Constanța]]
*[[Military Technical Academy]],<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.mta.ro// |title=Military Technical Academy Bucharest |publisher=www.mta.ro/ |access-date=2017-11-08 |archive-date=2017-11-08 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171108224307/http://www.mta.ro/ |url-status=dead }}</ref> [[Bucharest]]

====Russia====
*{{Ill|School no. 1259|ru|Школа № 1259}}, Moscow

====Saint Vincent and the Grenadines====
*[[Saint Vincent Grammar School]], [[Kingstown]]

====Slovakia====
*[[Faculty of Informatics and Information Technologies]] of [[Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava]]
*Slovak Organisation for Space Activities

====Slovenia====
*[[Prva Gimnazija Maribor]], Maribor
*[[Gimnazija Jesenice]], Jesenice
*[[Gimnazija Škofja Loka]], Škofja Loka

====South Africa====
*Pietersburg Hoërskool<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.pieties.co.za/ |title=Pietersburg Hoerskool |publisher=Pieties.co.za |access-date=2013-12-21}}</ref>
*Tembisa Secondary School
*[[South African Air Force]]<ref>[[South African Air Force]]</ref>{{Circular reference|date=March 2019}}
*Ribane-Laka Secondary School
*Chistlehurst Academics and Arts School

====Sri Lanka====
*[[St. Paul's Girls' School, Milagiriya|St. Paul's Girls' School]], Milagiriya, Colombo District, Western Province

====Sweden====
*[[Västmanland Wing]]<ref>{{cite book |url=https://www.sfhm.se/contentassets/84a6e4f1b2ce4e2b96c4ba578a41c503/svenska-flygvapnets-forband-och-skolor-under-1900-talet.pdf |last=Braunstein |first=Christian |title=Svenska flygvapnets förband och skolor under 1900-talet |series=Skrift / Statens försvarshistoriska museer, 1101-7023; 8 [dvs 9] |year=2005 |publisher=Statens försvarshistoriska museer |location=Stockholm |language=sv |isbn=9197158488 |id={{LIBRIS|9845891}} |page=44}}</ref>

====Tajikistan====
* Gymnasium No. 1 after V. Chkalov, [[Buston, Sughd|Buston]], Khujand, Sugd region

====Ukraine====
*Space Museum dedicated to [[Sergei Korolev|Korolyov]] in [[Zhytomyr]]
*[[Dnipropetrovsk Oblast]]
*Bucha Ukrainian gymnasium

====United Kingdom====
*The Royal School, Haslemere, Surrey
*[[Colfe's School]], Greenwich, London
*[[Mayfield Grammar School]], Gravesend, Kent
*[[Dr Challoner's Grammar School]], Amersham, Buckinghamshire

====United States====
*[[California State University East Bay]], Hayward, California<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.csueastbay.edu/ |title=California State University East Bay |publisher=Csueastbay.edu |access-date=2013-12-21}}</ref>
*[[Campbell University]], Buies Creek, North Carolina<ref>[http://www.campbell.edu/catalog/03_05/gen_info.html Campbell University: General Information] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080726233806/http://www.campbell.edu/catalog/03_05/gen_info.html |date=26 July 2008 }}</ref>
*[[Cornelia Strong College]], [[University of North Carolina at Greensboro]], North Carolina
*Coventry High School, Coventry, Rhode Island
*East Hampton High School, East Hampton, Connecticut
*[[Greenhill School (Addison, Texas)|Greenhill School]], Dallas, Texas<ref>[http://web2.greenhill.org/About/Philosophy.aspx Greenhill School: Statement of Philosophy] {{webarchive|url=https://archive.today/20090106030556/http://web2.greenhill.org/About/Philosophy.aspx |date=6 January 2009 }}</ref>
*Irvington Union Free School District, Irvington, New York
*Saint Joseph Academy, Brownsville, Texas
*[[Lake View High School (Chicago, Illinois)|Lake View High School]], Chicago, Illinois
*[[Lyndon Institute]], Lyndon Center, Vermont
*Macopin Middle School, West Milford, New Jersey
*[[Miami Central High School]], Miami, Florida
*Midwood High School, Brooklyn, New York
*Mirman School, Los Angeles, California
*[[Morristown-Beard School]], Morristown, New Jersey
*[[Mount Saint Michael Academy]], Bronx, New York
*[[Satellite High School]], Satellite Beach, Florida
*[[Seven Lakes High School]], Katy, Texas
*[[Stevens Institute of Technology]], Hoboken, New Jersey<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.stevens.edu/sit/about/campus.cfm |title=Stevens Institute of Technology: About Stevens |publisher=Stevens.edu |access-date=2013-12-21 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131012013900/http://www.stevens.edu/sit/about/campus.cfm |archive-date=2013-10-12 }}</ref>
*[[Trinity Prep]], Winter Park, Florida<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.trinityprep.org/page.cfm?p=1057 |title=Trinity Prep School: myTPS Portal |publisher=Trinityprep.org |access-date=2013-12-21 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120607142532/http://www.trinityprep.org/page.cfm?p=1057 |archive-date=2012-06-07 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
*Townsend Harris High School, Queens, New York
*[[University High School (Fresno)|University High School]], Fresno, California
*[[University of Tennessee Space Institute]], Tullahoma, Tennessee
*Oak Harbor Academy Private School, Lemoore, California

===Fraternities and sororities===
*[[Beta Sigma Psi]] National Lutheran Fraternity<ref>{{cite web|url=http://convention.betasigmapsi.org/ |title=Beta Sigma Psi 2006 National Convention, see page header |publisher=Convention.betasigmapsi.org |date=27 December 2009 |access-date=2013-12-21}}</ref>
*Sigma Gamma Phi – SUNY Oneonta Sorority<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.oneonta.edu/development/huntunion/igc/sigmagammaphi.html |title=Sigma Gamma Phi at SUNY Oneonta |publisher=Oneonta.edu |access-date=2013-12-21}}</ref>
*[[Corporation (university)#Estonia|Korp! Amicitia]] – Estonian student sorority.
*[[Freemasons-Knight's Templar, 32nd Degree]]
*K.Ö.St.V. Almgau Salzburg – Austrian Catholic Student Association<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.almgau.org/|title=Startseite – ALMGAU|author=Almgau, 2014|date=7 May 2011|work=K.ö.St.V. Almgau Salzburg im MKV}}</ref>
*K.Ö.St.V. Rugia Retz – Austrian Catholic Student Association
*[[K.a.V. Danubia Wien-Korneuburg im ÖCV]] – Austrian Catholic Student Association
*[[Pi Kappa Phi Fraternity]] – American Fraternity

===Popular culture===
* Appears on the hull of the ship 'Searcher' in the second season of [[Buck Rogers]].
* [[Garrison Keillor]] routinely references the phrase as the only Latin phrase he cared to remember on ''[[A Prairie Home Companion]]''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://prairiehome.publicradio.org/programs/2011/09/17/scripts/open.shtml |title=transcript from the September 17, 2011 episode of ''A Prairie Home Companion''}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://churchstreetumc.blogspot.com/2011/02/february-20-2001.html|title=Church Street United Methodist Church: February 20, 2001|author=Rev. Andy Ferguson|work=churchstreetumc.blogspot.com|access-date=14 March 2014|archive-date=15 March 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140315021918/http://churchstreetumc.blogspot.com/2011/02/february-20-2001.html|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* ''[[Per Aspera Ad Astra (film)|Per Aspera Ad Astra]]'' is a Soviet Russian science fiction film by [[Richard Viktorov]], written by [[Kir Bulychov]].
*[[Rip Torn]] says this phrase to [[David Bowie]] in the film ''[[The Man Who Fell to Earth (film)|The Man Who Fell to Earth]]''.
*[[Tomo Milicevic]] of the band [[30 Seconds to Mars]] has a tattoo on his right forearm reading 'per aspera et astra', with the band's logo in the background in red.
*''Aspera! Per aspera! Per ardua! Ad astra!'' is the refrain of the song "Aspera" by [[Erin McKeown]] on the album ''[[We Will Become Like Birds]]''.
*American singer, rapper, dancer, actress, and songwriter [[Kiely Williams]] has "Per aspera ad astra" tattooed on her right forearm.
*Title of a play depicting the history of the fictional Maycomb County in ''[[To Kill a Mockingbird]]'', in which the translation is given as '''from the mud to the stars'''.
*Title of a song by [[Haggard (band)|Haggard]], from the album ''[[Eppur Si Muove (album)|Eppur Si Muove]]''.
*The name of an album by [[Abandon Kansas]].
*It is one of many hidden messages in the 2009 video game ''[[The Conduit]]''.
*Motto of the Martian Imperial Commandos in [[Kurt Vonnegut]] novel, ''[[The Sirens of Titan]]''.
*Title of a song by Seattle-based band [[Acceptance (band)|Acceptance]].
*Title of a song by Goasia, appearing on the album ''From Other Spaces'' ([[Suntrip Records]], 2007)
*Appears on right side shoulder patch in ''[[Star Trek: Enterprise]]'', on the "newer" uniform style shown on the series finale. In ''[[Star Trek: The Next Generation]]'' it is shown to be the motto of [[Starfleet]].
*The official motto of Solforce in the videogame ''[[Sword of the Stars]]''.
*The phrase is used as the name of the tenth track on the score for the film ''[[Underworld: Rise of the Lycans]]'' by [[Paul Haslinger]].
*Title of a song by the band [[Spiritual Beggars]] from their album ''Ad Astra''.
*Title of a song by the band [[Die Apokalyptischen Reiter]] from their album ''Samurai''.
*The final mission (Chapter 15) in the ''[[Mafia II]]'' video game.
*In a tattoo piece in ''[[The Raven (2012 film)|The Raven]]''.
*Appears on the memorial wall of the 'Normandy SR-2' at the extended cut ending of [[Mass Effect 3]].
*The phrase has been spoofed slightly by the band [[Ghost B.C.|Ghost]] in the song "Per Aspera Ad Inferi" from their album ''[[Infestissumam]]''<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.myplaydirect.com/ghostbc/infestissumam-deluxe/details/28150750 |title=Ghost B.C. Store |publisher=Myplaydirect.com |access-date=2013-12-21 |archive-date=2013-12-24 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131224111828/http://www.myplaydirect.com/ghostbc/infestissumam-deluxe/details/28150750 |url-status=dead }}</ref> literally meaning "Through hardships to hell".<ref>"A Nameless Ghoul From Ghost B.C. Speaks About 'Infestissumam', the Devil + More". Loudwire. Retrieved 4 August 2013.</ref>
*Title of a background track from the ''[[Pokémon Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire]]'' video games which plays during a voyage into space.
* In the 2015 film ''[[The Martian (film)|The Martian]]'', at the end of the film astronaut Mark Watney is giving his first lecture to the Astronaut Candidate Program and the phrase appears embedded in the central floor area of the lecture hall around a logo.
*Title of character leveling achievements in Mistwalker's mobile game ''[[Terra Battle]]''.
*Found in the ''[[Gravity Falls]]'' Journal No. 3, penned on the title page. Appears on the journal both in the show and on the real-life replica.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/gravity-falls-alex-hirsch/1123577136|title=Gravity Falls: Journal 3{{!}}Hardcover|last=Noble|first=Barnes &|website=Barnes & Noble|language=en|access-date=2020-02-25}}</ref>
*The title of a [[Pee Wee Gaskins (band)|Pee Wee Gaskins]] album (2010).
* The title character in [[Ottessa Moshfegh]]'s novel ''[[Eileen (novel)|Eileen]]'' accepts and smokes a Pall Mall and refers to the motto on the package translated as "Through the thorns to the stars."
* On the ship the students find in ''[[Astra Lost in Space]]'', there is a plaque with this saying on it.
* The motto of the Golds in [[Pierce Brown]]'s ''[[Red Rising]]'' Series.
* ''[[Ad Astra (film)|Ad Astra]]'' is a 2019 American science fiction film by James Gray.
* Appears in the logo of the ''[[Universal Paperclips]]'' Advanced AI Research Group.
* In the mobile game ''[[Fate/Grand Order]]'', '''Per Aspera Ad Astra''' is the Noble Phantasm (finisher move) name of the Grand Lancer Servant: Romulus=Quirinus.
* Title of a cosmetic weapon wrap in [[Fortnite]] released for [[International Women's Day]] 2022.

===Others===
* [[Satellogic]] uses it in its pirate culture flag.
*As part of the official team crest of [[Arendal Football]]
*As part of the team crest of the former [[Camberwell Magpies Cricket Club|Collingwood Cricket Club]].
*A plaque honoring the astronauts of [[Apollo 1#Launch Complex 34|Apollo 1]] at the launch site where they perished.
*A tribute exhibit to the Apollo 1 Astronauts "Ad Astra Per Aspera – A Rough Road Leads to the Stars" opened on 27 January 2017, the 50th anniversary of the loss of the crew, at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex.
*Inscribed on the crest of [[Pall Mall (cigarette)|Pall Mall cigarettes]] packages<ref>{{cite web |url=http://history-of-cigarette-brands.com/pall-mall.shtml |title=Pall Mall |publisher=History of Cigarette Brands |access-date=2013-12-21 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110817224045/http://history-of-cigarette-brands.com/pall-mall.shtml |archive-date=2011-08-17 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
*The theme of "POR CC XXI" by [[Kolese Kanisius Jakarta]]
*Part of a custom paint job in [[World Of Tanks]]
*Tradewinds Swiss<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tradewinds-swiss.ch|title=Test Tradewinds Swiss|access-date=2021-01-23|archive-date=2016-01-12|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160112004932/http://tradewinds-swiss.ch/|url-status=dead}}</ref>
*Space Development Network<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://ownerphonenumber.online/|title=(CA) Who owns the phone number? – Identify the Owner of a Phone Number 123|website=ownerphonenumber.online|access-date=24 September 2020}}</ref>
*Part three of the book ''Jepp who Defied the Stars'' by [[Katherine Marsh]] has the phrase as its title.<ref>{{Google books |id=SucRBgAAQBAJ |page=225 |title=Jepp who Defied the Stars }}</ref>
*Appears in [[Morse code]] on the track titled "[https://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/assets/audio/golden-record/morse.wav Sounds of Earth]" on the [[Voyager Golden Record]] that has copies aboard the [[Voyager 1]] & [[Voyager 2|2]] spacecraft that are currently in interstellar space.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/golden-record/whats-on-the-record/sounds/|title=Voyager – Sounds on the Golden Record|website=voyager.jpl.nasa.gov|access-date=24 September 2020}}</ref>
*Former Governor-General of Canada [[Julie Payette]] adopted it in her personal coat of arms.
*Is also the motto of the famous Italian historical videomaker [[Nova Lectio]].

==See also==
* ''[[Per ardua ad astra]]'' ("Through adversity to the stars")
**[[Ad astra (phrase)#Per ardua ad astra|Per ardua ad astra]], additional uses with reference to above article
*[[Ad astra (phrase)#Ad astra per aspera|Ad astra per aspera]], additional uses
*[[Ad astra (phrase)#Per aspera ad astra|Per aspera ad astra]], references this article

==References==
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==External links==
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