It is a great honor for me to be in Armenia, and the main purpose of visiting Armenia and other countries is to inspire the next generation. Kam Ghaffarian, the 17th laureate of Armenia's 2026 State Award for Global Contribution to High Technologies (Global High-Tech Award), said this at a meeting with journalists on November 3.

“We are a very small part of the cosmos. At the age of six, I dreamed of discovering what happens beyond our planet, understanding the nature of stars, understanding what lies beyond Mars or the Sun, and understanding the entire cosmic system. All the companies in this field are working on precisely that,” he noted.

Ghaffarian explained that the private company he founded is working on establishing a lunar base, and that this is a priority. “After that, we will be able to say that we are not from New York or Yerevan, but from the Moon,” he said.

Ghaffarian said that a vehicle built by his company had successfully landed on the Moon.

“We are now building six more such vehicles, and we are proud of this. To date, I have sent 12 astronauts to the Moon, who circled the planet once every 21 minutes and saw the sunset every 45 minutes as they observed our beautiful planet. They did not see countries, borders, or religions. They saw only our beautiful planet and our shared home. This gives us an opportunity to rethink things and understand that we are all one and that space unites us all.

In 2050, we will land at a lunar base, but it will not be just a base; it will be a space city where people can live and work, creating extraordinary industrial opportunities. We will be able to establish industry in space, study the human body, and perhaps even create human DNA in space.

We will be able to make daily landings on the Moon, where there will be suitable landing sites,” Ghaffarian said.

He spoke about his new project, which aims to send an interplanetary probe to Proxima Centauri, the closest star to the Solar System. It is scheduled to launch by 2028–2029. Using technology available today, the spacecraft would take about 80,000 years to reach its destination.

Ghaffarian sincerely hopes that one day he will be able to inspire someone in Armenia or any other country to become a scientist and study the Moon and space.

“My main goal and mission is to inspire people and raise their awareness so that we understand that we truly are one. We are one with our planet, our oceans, all the mountains, and all the life that exists on Earth, in our Solar System, and in the Universe. It is important to realize and understand that, ultimately, each of us is part of the cosmos, a cosmic being,” he emphasized.