Preferred Flight Participants

Many families wish to memorialize their loved ones on a future, "Preferred Flight." These missions will launch from from a particular launch facility in the United States, such as Cape Kennedy, Florida, or Spaceport America, New Mexico. Furthermore, some families have chosen to fly on two missions: A Preferred Flight mission, and the next available Celestis mission regardless of the launch facility we use.

We invite you to read the biographies of all of our Preferred Flight participants. We post these biographies as the families make them available.

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

When from the vaulted wonder of the sky
The curtain of the light is drawn aside,
And I behold the stars in all their wide
Significance and glorious mystery,
Assured that those more distant orbs are suns
Round which innumerable worlds revolve,
My faith grows strong, my day-born doubts dissolve,
And death, that dread annulment which life shuns,
Or fain would shun, becomes to life the way,
The thoroughfare to greater worlds on high,
The bridge from star to star. Seek how we may,
There is no other road across the sky;
And, looking up, I hear star-voices say:
"You could not reach us if you did not die."

Henry Abbey, "Faith's Vista" (1879)