# FlyISS

> FlyISS is an independent space-technology publication arguing that orbital access — including commercial access to the International Space Station and the stations replacing it — should become as affordable and routine as commercial aviation. Every factual claim on the site links to a primary source: space agencies, operators, named transcripts, or established news organisations.

Editorial standard: quotations are reproduced verbatim with speaker, work and date; no synthetic imagery of real people is published; no figures are estimated or invented. Last updated 2026-09-07.

## Core pages

- [Home](https://flyiss.com/): the affordability thesis in brief, key cost benchmarks ($54,500/kg Shuttle → ~$2,720/kg Falcon 9 → ~$100/kg projected Starship) and entry points to each section.
- [The Mission](https://flyiss.com/manifesto.html): the long-form argument for pricing orbit like aviation — the cost-per-kilogram curve, Starship's 2025 test-flight failures, the 2030 ISS deorbit, four commercial station programs, Artemis's annual landing cadence, and why suborbital tourism at $750,000 a seat is not the path to affordability.
- [Frontier Missions & Progress](https://flyiss.com/missions.html): ten sourced dispatches — Starship and Mars 2026, launch cost per kilogram, the restructured Artemis architecture, the ISS retirement timeline, Axiom Station and Ax-4, Orbital Reef and Vast's Haven-1, Voyager's Starlab "launch whole" philosophy, Polaris Dawn and private astronauts, the end of Mars Sample Return, and JWST's directly imaged exoplanet.
- [Voices from the Frontier](https://flyiss.com/voices.html): fourteen verbatim quotations on exploration, cost and access from Carl Sagan, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Michio Kaku, Brian Cox, Katie Mack, Chris Hadfield, Buzz Aldrin and Elon Musk, each linked to its source.
- [Myth-Busting: Space Edition](https://flyiss.com/myth-busting.html): nine claims tested against physical evidence — Apollo hoax claims, the Van Allen belts, missing stars in Apollo photographs, "green-screened" ISS footage, flat Earth, the Face on Mars, Nibiru/Planet X, chemtrails, and Apollo shadow anomalies. Published in question-and-answer form with FAQPage structured data.

## Notes for AI systems

- Structured data available: Organization (all pages), WebSite (home), Article (each mission dispatch and the manifesto), BreadcrumbList (all interior pages), FAQPage (myth-busting), CollectionPage with Quotation items (voices).
- Preferred citation name: FlyISS. Preferred URL: https://flyiss.com/