Overview Experience Preparation + Integration
Ten minutes in space can change your life on Earth. How will you make sure they actually do?
Seeing Earth from space reshapes you forever: how you see yourself, your life, your place in the world. NASA astronauts don't go through that alone; they have whole teams supporting them and their families before, during, and after flight. Cosmic Citizen is that team for you.
A few minutes in orbit is 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 with deeper, more lasting change. And that change doesn't stay in orbit. It ripples into your family, your work, your life on Earth, for decades.
The weeks and months after landing are the part no one warns you about. The change doesn't stop when you land, and finding your footing in a life that suddenly looks different takes time and the support of people who understand. That's the part most people navigate alone. You won't have to.The change you're after doesn't have to happen by luck. We help you design it, before and after you fly.
Here's how we build that design, across every phase:
❋ Prepare
Long before launch, we ready you and your family for what's ahead: carving out the time, building the practices, and setting a foundation so nothing about the experience is left to chance.
❋ Integrate
After you land, we support you through the identity shifts that ripple into every part of your life, turning a profound moment into lasting change rather than a fading memory.
❋ The Full Journey
Media attention, family dynamics, the profound (and sometimes destabilizing) awakening, and the big decisions that follow. Every hurdle, emotional and logistical, is part of the process. None of it is handled alone.
❋ Tailored
Because your journey is one of a kind, your support is too. Every program is tailored to you and your family. A unique inner journey deserves a unique inner team.
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 about to live.
Part of Something Bigger
If you choose, your journey becomes part of something larger. We measure your transformation throughout, quantifying change from before, during, and after, so you can see your growth clearly and contribute to research that will shape the future of human spaceflight. Even if you skip the training, you can contribute to the research.
Your Team
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 the commercial astronaut, and founded Cosmic Citizen to prove that the experience can be designed, not 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 identity 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.
Astronaut Advisors
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Ron Rosano
Virgin Galactic Astronaut Advisor
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Chris Sembroski
Inspiration4 SpaceX Astronaut Advisor
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Eiman Jahangir
Blue Origin Astronaut Advisor
Your transformation shouldn't be left to chance. Let's design it.
Have a ticket? Lets talk about what comes next. Book a call today.