Now accepting applications for 2027
Your orbit
around Earth
awaits.
Firefly offers intimate, six-passenger orbital journeys — 90 minutes per orbit, 16 sunrises per day, and a view of our planet that changes everything.
6 seats
per mission
3 days
in orbit
400 km
altitude
Our Mission
Space, made personal.
Firefly was founded on a simple belief: that the overview effect — seeing Earth whole from space — should be available to more than a handful of government astronauts. We built a spacecraft, a training program, and a company around making that possible safely.
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True orbital flight Not a suborbital hop. You reach orbital velocity and circle Earth every 90 minutes.
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Maximum 6 passengers Small groups mean individual attention, a quieter cabin, and real camaraderie in orbit.
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Safety first A rigorous medical screening and training program ensures every passenger is mission-ready.
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72 hours of wonder Three full days in orbit — time to sleep, adapt, observe, and reflect on everything below.
The Journey
From launchpad to splashdown.
A Firefly mission spans five days in total — two days of pre-launch preparation, three days in orbit, and a supervised recovery period on return.
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T−48h
Pre-Launch
Two days before liftoff, your mission begins at our Cape Canaveral facility. You will undergo a final medical check, pressure-suit fitting, emergency egress drills, and full crew briefings with your Firefly flight director. It is the moment a journey of months becomes very, very real.
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T+0
Launch
Engines ignite. Liftoff from Launch Complex 39 presses you back into your seat at 3 g. The sky darkens from blue to violet to absolute black in under three minutes. Ten minutes after leaving the pad, Aurora reaches orbital velocity at 400 km altitude — and the weightlessness begins.
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Days 1–3
In Orbit
Forty-eight complete orbits. Sixteen sunrises every day. Each passenger receives dedicated cupola observation time, and the rest of the cabin is yours to float through freely. Sleep cycles follow Earth's light rhythm. Meals are prepared in the galley module. Time passes differently up here — slower and faster at once.
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Day 4
Return
The deorbit burn slows Aurora and begins the long fall home. Re-entry plasma lights the windows orange for six minutes. Parachutes deploy. The ocean rises to meet you. Our recovery vessel is already on-station, and a full medical team is waiting aboard to welcome you back to Earth.
Acceptance Program
Is spaceflight right for you?
We care deeply about your safety. Everyone who flies with Firefly completes a structured medical evaluation and a short astronaut-readiness program before launch.
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Cardiovascular Health
Launch and re-entry expose the body to 3–4 g-forces. Your heart and circulatory system must be robust enough to handle this safely.
- Resting ECG & stress ECG
- Echocardiogram
- Blood pressure within normal range (no uncontrolled hypertension)
- No recent cardiac events
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Neurological Screening
Microgravity affects vestibular function and spatial perception. We screen for any conditions that could be exacerbated in orbit.
- Neurological history review
- No uncontrolled epilepsy or severe motion-sickness disorder
- Baseline cognitive assessment
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Pulmonary & General Fitness
A healthy respiratory system and reasonable general fitness are necessary for suit operations and rapid cabin depressurisation drills.
- Spirometry / lung function test
- No active severe respiratory disease
- Body mass index within mission parameters
- Blood panel (CBC, metabolic)
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Physical Readiness Tests
Candidates complete a short fitness assessment. You do not need to be an athlete — these are minimum-safety benchmarks.
- 3-minute step test (cardiovascular endurance)
- Grip-strength measurement
- Seated forward bend (flexibility)
- Simulated g-force chair (centrifuge) tolerance test
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Suited Emergency Drills
All passengers must demonstrate the ability to don and verify their pressure suit, perform cabin egress, and operate emergency O₂ independently.
- Suit-donning time trial (8 min max)
- Emergency egress simulation
- Microgravity orientation exercise (neutral-buoyancy pool)
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Psychological Assessment
Confined spaces and the intensity of orbital flight demand emotional resilience. We offer this evaluation as a mutual safeguard, not a barrier.
- Structured clinical interview
- Claustrophobia & isolation tolerance screen
- Pre-flight psychology debrief
Evaluation timeline
Testimonials
From those who’ve been there.
Every Firefly mission carries six ordinary people. Here is what some of them say after coming home.
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★★★★★
“Nothing in 42 years of life prepared me for that first glimpse of the horizon curving away. No photograph captures the colour of the atmosphere from the other side. I cried. Twice. Zero regrets.”
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★★★★★
“I was nervous about the medical screening — I had a stent placed six years ago. The Firefly medical team worked with my cardiologist over three months and cleared me. Their thoroughness is exactly what gave me confidence to go.”
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★★★★★
“The six of us became friends in a way that only happens when you have been weightless together, watched a sunrise over the Indian Ocean, and eaten freeze-dried risotto out of a pouch. We still video-call every month.”
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★★★★★
“The re-entry was intense — you feel every g. But the training is so thorough that when the g-force hit I knew exactly what to expect. Best prepared I have ever been for anything in my life.”
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★★★★★
“I spent the first 24 hours just staring out of the cupola. My husband said I went quiet in a way he had never seen before. I came back different — calmer, more grateful, impossible to stress over small things.”
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★★★★★
“I applied thinking the acceptance process would be a barrier. Instead it became part of the journey — the centrifuge session, the underwater drill, the psychology session. By launch day I felt like I belonged there.”
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