Destiny Flight

Destiny is the 22nd Celestis Memorial Spaceflight mission, the 3^rd Luna Service.

Space exploration is often described as a product or outcome of the pursuit of destiny.   Destiny can be defined as the events that will necessarily happen to a particular person or thing in the future. Destiny often suggests a future that includes something great and important.  

Author Charles Fishman – writing about the Apollo program the first took humans to the moon – noted “Space didn’t just create the opportunity for knowledge and adventure, for American destiny and American values. It created an obligation to reach for the Moon, and to reach beyond.” 

Destiny has been chosen as the name for some other high profiles space missions.

The Destiny module, also known as the U.S. Lab, is the primary operating facility for U.S. research payloads aboard the International Space Station (ISS). Destiny is NASA's first permanent operating orbital research station since Skylab was vacated in February 1974.

The Japanese Space Agency (JAXA) plans to launch a spacecraft to flyby the Geminids meteor shower parent body in 2024 called DESTINY⁺ (Demonstration and Experiment of Space Technology for Interplanetary Voyage).

Many of the participants aboard the third Celestis Luna Service Memorial Spaceflight felt a sense of destiny calling them to Moon in life, built careers around humanity’s exploration of our nearest neighbor, or simply longed for the most lasting of memorial locations.  In this sense the participants aboard are fulfilling their destinies.