Where do you go if you can go anywhere?
Many of those who travel to space recount undergoing a fundamental cognitive shift.
Viewing our home planet from the Cosmos within which it rests, protected by a thin and wispy atmosphere, affects a transcendent experience that has been termed ‘the Overview Effect.’ Astronauts return from space changed, with a renewed perspective on humanity that remains with them the rest of their lives. The trip awakens something that feels primordial, eternal, and essential.
We are on a mission to reveal it to as many humans as possible.
And so today, twenty years after astronauts first began to live and work aboard the International Space Station, Axiom offers you the ability to traverse the sublime reach of space and fulfill personal goals of philosophical, philanthropic, scientific, or commercial nature — and help open a new chapter in human history.
“I sensed the warmth and energy of life emanating from Earth and I was overwhelmed by emotion.”
“On the day of the flight, we went out to the pad, we got into our seats, we launched and accelerated upward … and then, eventually, the engines cut off and we were in orbit. As I opened my seatbelts, I floated to the porthole in the capsule and I saw Earth from space for the first time. I sensed the warmth and energy of life emanating from Earth and I was overwhelmed by emotion.
“I started crying, and my tears started floating in weightlessness.”
- Anousheh Ansari, Private Astronaut, Soyuz TMA-9
Whatever you choose, space offers creative freedom, inspiration, and a global megaphone that simply does not exist on Earth.
Missions with Axiom include seventeen weeks of expert training at space agency facilities that only a privileged few get to see. Training prepares the participant as an astronaut, develops a deep camaraderie with fellow astronauts, and truly inaugurates one as a member of the exclusive space traveler family.
Each astronaut’s experience in the perch overlooking Earth is unique and personal, and visitors to orbit have carried out a broad range of activities. Axiom works with its private astronauts to design an optimal itinerary. Examples include STEM education outreach, research, filmmaking and photography, and support for philanthropic causes.
Experience the transformative shift of humanity