Overview Experience Preparation + Integration

A ten-minute ride to Space can change your life on Earth. Everyone prepares for the flight, but few prepare for the transformation.

NASA astronauts don't make the journey alone; they have a whole team to support them and their families before, during, and after flight. Cosmic Citizen is your team.

A few minutes touching orbit is a dream come true, and it is also more than any of us can absorb at once. What you bring to it influences what you take from it: flyers who arrive with prepared hearts and open, grounded minds come back seeing themselves, their lives, and the world differently. 

The weeks and months post-flight are their own uncharted territory: a nervous system finding its feet, a life that suddenly looks unfamiliar, and a new perspective that asks for new action. This is the part almost every flyer navigates alone. It's also the part that decides whether the experience stays with you or slips through your fingers.

You spent your life dreaming of this flight. You shouldn't have to hope you were ready for it. We help you prepare for it, live it fully, and weave it into your life. Every phase, tended. So you don't look back and think you could have done it better.

How the journey unfolds:

❋ Preparation

Long before launch, we ready you and your family for what's ahead: carving out the time, building the practices, and laying a foundation that holds through everything that follows.

❋ Integration

After you land, we help you ground the overview perspective. The inner shifts ripple into every part of your life. We provide the care, patience, and people who know the terrain.

❋ The Full Journey

Media attention, family dynamics, and the big decisions that follow — all of it is part of the process. Every hurdle, emotional and logistical, is supported. None of it is handled alone.

❋ Built for You and Yours

No two flyers need the same preparation, so no two programs look alike. And because the flight doesn't happen to you alone, your family is part of the plan, too.

The Cosmic Citizen Difference

This is an emerging field, and we're building its foundation. Our facilitators include leading scholars, an advisory panel of experienced flyers, and the best mentors in the business: people who have lived what you're preparing for.

Part of Something Bigger

If you choose, your journey becomes part of something larger. We measure change before flight, then track it long-term, so you can see your growth and contribute to research that will shape the future of human spaceflight. Even if you skip the training, you can contribute to the research.

The team who knows the terrain

Training Directors

Cristina Star

Founder + Training Director

Cristina has spent 15 years guiding people through personal transformation and awakening experiences. A physicist by training, she wrote her Space Policy Master's thesis on the best methods for psychological preparation and integration for commercial astronauts, and founded Cosmic Citizen to prove that the experience can be designed, not just screened or left to chance. Her mission is to change the way the industry supports the humans behind every future flight.

Frank White

Training Design Partner

Frank is the progenitor of The Overview Effect (1987) and remains the foremost scholar on the cognitive and emotional shifts that spaceflight can trigger, drawing on decades of interviews with astronauts and cosmonauts. Together with Cristina, he designed Cosmic Citizen's training to apply his lifetime of research, so every flyer is fully prepared before launch and fully supported after. He is also a client, receiving ongoing mentorship for his own upcoming flight.