From the desk of Mission Control.
News, updates and essays about the Overview Effect and the future of humanity.
Barbie Becomes a Citizen Astronaut!
Barbie has her Overview Effect moment!
From Sara: To Space, for Us.
Tomorrow Sara Sabry becomes our second Citizen Astronaut to go to Space. When she does, she adds to a growing trend of new explorers. But these trailblazers aren’t exploring some dark, unknown border on a map. They explore what it is to be human. What it means to be connected. What it feels like to bring hope to a new generation of explorers whose journeys will permeate all peoples of this place we all call home. She also continues the trend started by our first citizen astronaut, Katya Echazarreta. To write a letter to those that come next. So, to you, the next citizen astronauts. Here’s Sara in her own words.
Introducing S4H's Second Citizen Astronaut: Sara Sabry
Today, we are proud to announce our selection committee has chosen Sara Sabry to become the organization’s second citizen astronaut. Sara will become the first Egyptian to fly to space when she flies aboard Blue Origin’s NS-22 flight.
From Our Executive Director: Mission Success
As Space for Humanity realizes its mission to send its first citizen astronaut to space, we asked Executive Director, Rachel Lyons to sum up this moment in our history, in her own words.
Mission Patch: An Emblem of the Overview Effect
An Artwork & Space Patch for Space for Humanity’s Citizen Astronaut #1: The First Mexican-born woman in Space
From Katya: My Journey To Now
What I want you to know is that you belong here too. You deserve this too. You can make it too. I believe that this new era is about opening new doors and holding them open for those who will come after us.
Introducing S4H's First Citizen Astronaut: Katya Echazarreta
Today, we are proud to announce our selection committee has chosen Katya Echazarreta to become the organization’s first-ever citizen astronaut ambassador. Katya will become the first Mexican-born female to fly to space when she flies aboard Blue Origin’s NS-21 flight.
Space for Humanity’s Founder, Dylan Taylor, shares more about his transformative trip to space aboard NS-19
I was struck by the notion that people live their whole lives thinking Earth, the air we breathe and the life we enjoy is natural and space is abstract. It is actually the exact opposite. What is natural is dark, cold and hostile space. We live just across the other side of a portal, in a magical place that is a miracle to exist at all. Earth is an oasis and that notion penetrates you very, very deeply from space.