Lindsey Stirling‘s latest musical performance is just outstanding.
Lindsey Stirling, violinist, 33, teamed up with NASA. She performed her song “Artemis” during her recent trip to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s headquarters.
Stirling’s rousing instrumental is featured on her album titled Artemis, which shares its name with NASA’s new Artemis program.
NASA plans to send the first woman and the next man on the moon by 2024. The space agency wants to examine more of the lunar surface than ever before. By 2028, NASA hopes to collaborate with its partners and develop sustainable exploration.
Stirling revealed the real meaning behind her album’s title while talking to PEOPLE.
“I see it as the universe speaking,” she says. “Artemis, as the goddess of the moon, is a very empowering woman in Greek mythology and I thread her message throughout my album and the visual graphic novel.”
“The same week we announced our title, NASA announced its next mission to put a woman on the moon as [part of] the Artemis program and my team looked at ourselves and said, ‘Wow,’” Stirling recalls. “My manager Adina made contact with NASA and they invited us down for a tour and the opportunity of a lifetime — to play my violin!”
“It was the frosting on the cupcake that while we were touring a door opened and out spilled all of these real-life heroes,” she tells PEOPLE. “Even the tour guides were in awe. It was so cool to get a chance to meet NASA astronauts and they even let us get a few photos!”
Stirling shared with PEOPLE that she feels empowered every time she sees her music video in collaboration with NASA.
“Watching this video will always remind me that women can accomplish everything we set our hearts and minds to achieving,” Stirling says. “I’m grateful to be surrounded by so many amazing women and this Artemis Tour is a celebration of all that we’re accomplishing together.”
The violinist has a message for the future female leaders of the world.
“In this same way, I hope it’s also aspirational to any little girl who needs to see the actual manifestation of our dreams,” she tells PEOPLE. “These female astronauts are the embodiment of dreaming big, working hard and pushing boundaries to make a better world for all of us.”
Stirling has also collaborated with the Calm App to create her soothing tune “Lunar Lullaby” available only on the app.
“In a way, I feel like it shares a little different side of me,” Stirling said during an interview discussing the relaxing track. “This song is almost like the side of me that I work on, that I sit there and I think, ‘This is the kind of person that I am striving to be. This is the kind of state I’m striving to live in.’”
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