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.
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.
The title of the fourth album by ambient music duo Stars of the Lid (1998).
The subtitle of Sergei Bortkiewicz's 3rd piano concerto (1927).
The title of a song by Spiritual Beggars from their album Ad Astra (2000).
The title of a song by Haggard (band) from their album "Eppur Si Muove" (2004).
Acceptance has an instrumental track on their Phantoms album titled "Ad Astra Per Aspera" (2005).
The title of the first album by the band Aeon Sable (2010).
The title of the second album (2011) by Abandon Kansas.
Per Aspera Ad Aspera, the name of a best-of album by the band ASP (2014).
The title of a march by Ernst Urbach op. 4 (1906).
The title of an album of marches by the 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.
The subtitle of an instrumental song by the symphonic metal band Nightwish (2020).
The title of the 7th and final song from album "Spilia" by Iratus (2024).
The title of a track on the 2024 album “Ad Astra” by the Italian singing trio Il Volo
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.
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, from the 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.
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.
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
The phrase has been spoofed slightly by the band Ghost in the song "Per Aspera Ad Inferi" from their album Infestissumam literally meaning "Through hardships to hell".
In the 2015 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 #3, penned on the title page. Appears on the journal both in the show and on the real-life replica.
The title of a Pee Wee Gaskins album (2010)
The title character in Ottessa Moshfegh's 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 is a 2019 American science fiction film by James Gray.
Ad Astra Per Aspera title of one of the SCP Foundation's canons.
As part of the official team crest of Arendal Football
A plaque honoring the astronauts of 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 January 27, 2017, the 50th anniversary of the loss of the crew, at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex.
Inscribed on the crest of Pall Mall cigarettes packages
The theme of "POR CC XXI" by Kolese Kanisius Jakarta
Part of a custom paint job in World Of Tanks
Tradewinds Swiss
Space Development Network
Part three of the book Jepp who Defied the Stars by Katherine Marsh has the phrase as its title.
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