The adventure, which appears nowadays rather unbelievable and surrealistic, was nevertheless a serious one. Between 1960 and 1967, at the time of the Space Race and revolutionary ideas more than ten solid fuel Cedar rockets were launched. The launchings gave rise to celebrations. To commemorate the 21st anniversary of Lebanon’s independence, a set of stamps representing the Cedar IV rocket was even issued. The Arab defeat of 1967 put an end to the initiative.

The documents, photos and mainly films relating to the space project which had made the front pages of the press, have strangely disappeared from the collective memory.

This unusual and forgotten adventure questions the representations we have of ourselves, the relation to modernity, history and science fiction and the construction of imaginaries and tales.