 The "Sun Ra Repatriation Project" was started in 2008 with the aim of using interplanetary communication with a view to facilitating Sun Ra's return to planet Earth.Filmmaker and visual artist Cauleen Smith has heavily researched the life and legacy of Sun Ra.Her 2013 exhibition "17" "arises out of [her] research into the legacy of Sun Ra, who was himself a student of numerology and achieved a kind of cultural immortality the number 17 might be said to refer to".