el club de los astronautas is a space advocacy group of artists and musicians. its mission is to promote a manned, interstellar voyage. its approach is to find and debate strategies that might make stand out this idea beyond fiction, hopefully during our life-time! therefore a hypothetical spaceship is suggested: the mare nostrum spaceship. to realize a million-years interstellar voyage and to find some sexy aliens, the essential, first step is to overcome our biological limits and to transform into a new kind of (human) existence. let's open our planet! let's connect with the universe!