It has endured over the centuries, and the name Icarus has become a symbol for the simultaneous joy and dangers that are associated with escaping our surface-based prison.

An art of a tragic character in Greek mythology whose undoing and ultimate death came after he flew too close to the Sun, completely disregarding the warning of his father Daedalus.Icarus is a famous figure, all be it a minor one, from Greek mythology, and the story of the boy who flew too close to the sun is one which is still told, and retold, today.

In Greek mythology, Icarus was the son of the master craftsman Daedalus, the creator of the Labyrinth. Icarus and Daedalus attempt to escape from Crete by means of wings that Daedalus constructed from feathers and wax. Daedalus warns Icarus first of complacency and then of hubris, instructing him to fly neither too low nor too high, lest the sea's dampness clog his wings or the sun's heat melt them. Icarus ignores Daedalus’s instructions not to fly too close to the sun, causing the wax in his wings to melt. He falls out of the sky, plunges into the sea, and drowns. The myth gave rise to the idiom "don't fly too close to the sun.