a Time on the Moon. The musical component of the festival also featured Brian May, Rick Wakeman, Steve Vai and other stars. Nobel laureate physicist Kip Thorne together with Paul Franklin and Oliver James (DNEG) presented a visual sequence based on state-of-the-art astrophysics research. The Stephen Hawking Medal was awarded to Elon Musk, Buzz Aldrin, Brian Eno and the documentary Apollo 11, screened during the festival for the first time in Europe. Dedicated to the humanity's first step on the Moon and Apollo missions, Starmus V featured Apollo astronauts Buzz Aldrin, Al Worden, Charles Duke, Harrison Schmitt, Rusty Schweickart, Walter Cunningham joined by ESA and NASA astronauts Helen Sharman, Sandra Magnus, Nicole Stott, Claude Nicollier, Tim Peake, Garrett Reisman, and Russian astronauts Gennadiy Padalka and Yuri Baturin. Nobel Prize Laureates Donna Strickland, Edvard Moser, Samuel Ting, Elizabeth Blackburn, May-Britt Moser, Adam Riess, Robert Wilson, George Smoot, Brian Schmidt, Barry Barish and Eric Betzig joined the traditional discussion panel to debate on pressing issues of space exploration and the prospects of humanity in space. Another traditional panel titled 108 Minutes featured Harrison Schmitt, Charles Duke, Brian Eno, Bill Nye, May-Britt Moser, Donna Strickland, Garik Israelian, Michael Hintze, Al Worden and Gerry Griffin. A constellation of scientists, artists and astronauts shared their discoveries during six full days, through lectures, panel discussions, concerts, and a new genre in science communication, the concert-lecture, by May-Britt Moser. 2022 Starmus Festival, "Starmus VI" The Starmus festival (Starmus VI) was planned to be held between 6 and 11 September 2021 in Yerevan, Armenia. However, the event was postponed until September 2022, due to the COVID-19 pandemic and related travel restrictions. Starmus VI took place between 5 and 10 September 2022 in Yerevan. The main focus of the sixth Starmus Festival titled "50 years on Mars" is the exploration of Mars: from the very first Soviet MARS 3 to the ambitious manned landing plans and spectacular NASA missions. It has been 50 years since MARS 3 performed the first soft landing on the Red Planet and sent back to the Earth the first image of its surface. This milestone was followed by dozens of successful missions by NASA providing us with more accurate images and information from our neighbour in the Solar System. The 2022 Starmus festival also featured James Bagian, the first Armenian astronaut. The Festival was addressed pressing issues and showed screen films about the exploration