pronunciation = pear ah-spay-rah ahd ah-strah translation = through trials to the stars
Latin, Ad astra per aspera. A difficult (or, rough) road leads to the stars.
Per aspera ad astra That's a fairly common Latin motto - the South African Air Force uses it. It's also sometimes reversed - Ad astra per aspera - that's the motto of the State of Kansas. Asperum means 'a rough place, adversity, or (in plural form) difficulties,' so you will see several versions - Through difficulties/hardship/adversity to the stars.
The motto "Ad astra ad aspera" means " "To the stars by hardship (effort, work, difficulties)." It is also commonly translated to mean "A rough road leads to the stars." The original designer of the Great Seal of Kansas, John James Ingalls (1833-1900) once stated: "The aspiration of Kansas is to reach the unattainable; its dream is the realization of the impossible."
Ad art Luna et tergum-to the moon and back in Latin
The motto of Florida Institute of Technology is 'Ad Astra Per Scientiam'.
Ad Astra per Aspera - album - was created in 2010.
The duration of Per Aspera Ad Astra - film - is 2.47 hours.
It comes from the Latin language
"Ad Astra Per Aspera (To the Stars Through Difficulties)"
Colfe's School's motto is 'AD ASTRA PER ASPERA'.
There are three well known pieces of literature that uses the phrase 'ad Astra per aspera.' It was used in Hermann Hesse's Beneath the Wheel, Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird and James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artists as a Young Man.
On the state seal of Kansas, the phrase 'Ad astra per aspera' is the state motto. Its meaning in English is To the stars through difficulties. In the word-by-word translation, the preposition 'ad' means 'to'. The noun 'astra' means 'stars'. The preposition 'per' means 'through'. The noun 'aspera' means 'difficulties'.
Albury High School's motto is 'Ad Astra Per Aspera'.
The motto of Morristown-Beard School is 'Ad Astra per Aspera'.
Mayfield Grammar School's motto is 'Per aspera ad astra'.
The motto of Stevens Institute of Technology is 'Per aspera ad astra'.
Trinity Valley School's motto is 'Per Aspera Ad Astra'.