astrophotography, a conference "Discover space and change the world" were organized, in which leading researchers and scientists from various fields delivered mass lectures from the stage of the sports and concert complex named after K. Demirchyan. The role of scientists in preserving peace, scientific ethics, including in the post-COVID period, the responsibility of scientists to humanity were discussed at the round table in the Zvartnots temple "108 minutes of Gagarin" (according to the duration of the flight of the first cosmonaut) and at the panel discussion "Andrey Sakharov - 100" (the centenary of the Soviet scientist was celebrated in 2021). At the campsite near the Yerevan Opera Theatre, the Starmus scientific camp was set up - a tent city for schoolchildren and students. Here they were read entertaining lectures, showed experiments on astrophysics, laser technologies, unmanned vehicles and robotics, talked about agronomy, how to deal with epidemics. It also hosted concerts by artists from all over the world. The Festival featured several pieces of music dedicated to the exploration of Mars and space in general. So, Rick Wakeman performed insrumental version "Life on Mars?" at the Sonic Universe Concert on September 5. It's a song by English singer-songwriter David Bowie, first released on his 1971 album "Hunky Dory". Piano was played by Strawbs member Rick Wakeman. At the closing of the expanded program of the Starmus festival on September 11, at the site of the scientific camp near the Yerevan Opera Theatre, the neo-symphony "March of Mars" by the participant of the international social and cultural public initiative "Human Time" composer of Armenian origin Tigran Jager was performed. It became the only new composition dedicated directly to the theme of the exploration of Mars and prepared for the festival in Yerevan. "In my march-neosymphony, I reflected the idea that Mars has become a measure of the development of human civilization – not only technological, but also ethical. This planet, which for centuries has symbolized the god of war, should finally become the point of transition to nuclear-free energy and conflict-free information, reason and wisdom,” Tigran Jager described the idea of his work. Other dedications to the theme of space exploration were instrumental tracks by Serj Tankian (System of a Down) and Brian Eno, released in the fall of 2021. They paid a tribute to Alexander Kemurdzhian, soviet-armenian engineer who designed first planetary rovers Lunokhod and Mars Rover Prop-M. Starmus co-founder