Tickets
Ticket to Space: Pick Your Seat on the Next Simulated Launch
A seat on a real spaceflight costs hundreds of thousands of dollars or more and takes months of preparation. A LIFTONAUT ticket costs from €0.99, and the next rocket leaves in less than ten minutes: pick a tour, choose your seat in the cabin and ride a simulated mission built on real data.
Every ticket is for a simulated flight: you do not leave the ground, and we say so on every page. What you get is the experience around a launch, from the boarding pass to the touchdown, with real planetary data, a shared cabin and the voices of Mission Control.
Here is exactly what a ticket includes, how to choose a flight and a seat, and how it compares with a real ticket to space.
What your LIFTONAUT ticket includes
- A boarding pass with your name, the mission, the departure time and your seat number.
- A seat on a scheduled rocket. Departures leave every ten minutes, on the clock, and boarding closes one minute before liftoff.
- The full tour you booked, from the GO/NO-GO poll to touchdown on the same pad.
- Your own suit and visor, chosen in the lobby, and the crew chat with the other passengers.
- A flight certificate after landing, with your name, the mission, the date and the simulated distance.
Before you board, you can see how many seats are still free on each departure.
Pick a flight: six tours, one boarding pass
Earth Orbit, the Moon and Mars
The short tours are the best first flights. Earth Orbit is one full lap around the planet with a pass by the International Space Station. The Moon tour flies about 1,000 km above its sunlit side, with the six Apollo landing sites marked. The Mars tour passes the Moon on the way, then reaches the Red Planet and its two moons.
The Giants and the Grand Tour
The Giants cross the asteroid belt to Jupiter, Saturn and its rings, Uranus and Neptune. The Grand Tour, our featured flight, visits every planet, the major moons, the asteroid belt and Pluto in about 26 minutes.
Earth Orbit
Liftoff, one full orbit with sunrise and sunset, a pass by the International Space Station, re-entry and landing.
The Moon
The road to the Moon and a flyby about 1,000 km above its sunlit side, with the six Apollo landing sites marked.
Mars
A Moon flyby, then Mars with Phobos and Deimos, Olympus Mons and the rover sites.
The Giants
The asteroid belt, Jupiter, Saturn and its rings, Uranus and Neptune, with their moons.
The Grand Tour
The whole Solar System: every planet, the Moon, the major moons, the asteroid belt and Pluto.
The Complete Solar System
The Sun up close, all 8 planets, the 5 dwarf planets, 14 moons, Vesta, comet 67P, the Kuiper Belt and the Voyager probes at their real positions.
Coming soonAbout this tour
The Complete Solar System
The longest flight adds the Sun up close, dwarf planets, a real comet, the Kuiper Belt and the spacecraft we have sent out there. Read more on the Complete Solar System page.
Choose your seat in the 10-seat cabin
The cabin has ten seats in two curved rows, all facing five windows. The back row sits on a platform raised by 45 cm, so you can see over the front row. You choose your seat on a map before boarding; seats already taken by other passengers are marked.
Simulated ticket vs. a real space ticket: the difference
Real space tourism exists, but it is rare and expensive. In 2026 one suborbital operator priced its seats at $750,000, for a flight that spends only minutes in space. Orbital trips, such as the private astronaut missions to the International Space Station, have no public price list; for the first all-private crew in 2022, each seat was reported at about $55 million.
| Real suborbital flight | Real orbital flight | LIFTONAUT ticket | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Price | $750,000 (2026) | about $55 million (reported, 2022) | From €0.99 |
| Preparation | Training days, medical checks | Months of training | None |
| Time in space | A few minutes | Days to weeks | Simulated, from about 10 minutes |
| You actually leave Earth | Yes | Yes | No |
We built LIFTONAUT for everyone else: the view, the sounds and the facts of a mission, at the price of a coffee. More on the real market in our guide to space tourism.
Groups, gift tickets and private rockets
Four or more tickets bought together cost 15% less. A private rocket for ten people is 20% off the ticket price per seat, and for twenty people, 30% off; you get one link and one code that let everyone board. The Explorer Passport, at €9.99, covers Earth Orbit, the Moon, Mars, the Giants and the Grand Tour.
Any ticket can also be bought as a gift: the person who receives it gets a code and picks the flight and the seat.
Ticket questions
How much does a ticket to space cost?
A real seat costs hundreds of thousands of dollars for a few minutes of suborbital flight ($750,000 in one operator's 2026 price) and tens of millions for an orbital trip. A LIFTONAUT ticket for a simulated flight costs from €0.99.
Can you buy a ticket to space online?
For real flights you apply to a company, pass medical checks and train. For LIFTONAUT, yes: pick a tour and a departure, pay by card and you get your boarding pass straight away.
Is a LIFTONAUT ticket a real space flight?
No. It is a ticket to a simulated flight that you watch from a passenger seat in your browser. The data is real; the flight is virtual.
Can I give a space ticket as a gift?
Yes. Buy it as a gift and the recipient gets a code, then chooses the tour's departure and seat when it suits them.
What happens after I buy the ticket?
You get a boarding pass for your departure. Before liftoff you enter the lobby, pick your suit, visor and seat, and board. Boarding closes one minute before liftoff, and after landing you receive your flight certificate.
Sources
The numbers on this page come from these official sources.