Already in 1960 the artist Yves Klein declared him as the prince of space.

In the eighties he visited the Star-City (Swjosdny Gorodok) near Moscow, the training centre of the Russian cosmonauts. There he successfully graduated the program for the "spaceflight-fitness".

A genuine space flight didn’t happen, however Charles Wilp worked on the production of art in weightlessness at numerous parabola-flights - a concept, which he attributed to Michelangelo by painting the sixtinischen chapel, hanging backwards floating under the ceiling . His experiences he processed in collagen and used therefore material from space travel.

In 1993 his art sheets flew to the universe during the D2-Mission.

The 25th of April 1995 is finally the last day of the old time for Charles Wilp. He works in 40.000 feet height over the North Atlantic for the first time in space travel history as ARTronaut - an artist, who concerns himself with space and art at the same time - in weightlessness. He flys 30 flights with the Orbitic ZERO G, an astronauts training machine of the ESA. As "ARTronaut" he concerned hisself with art and space travel at the same time. ... and now we are going back to moon!

- see also "... and like everything began"