00 m · Regolith
It isn’t sand.
It’s volcanic glass, shattered by four billion years of impacts and never weathered smooth. It holds a bootprint the way plaster holds a hand.
Artemis Surface Stays — Season 2031 — 12 seats
One small step, repeated 40,000 times.
Seven days at an outpost on the rim of Shackleton crater, where the Sun never sets and nothing you leave behind ever blows away. Bring good boots. We supply the rest.
01 The walk EVA 1 · rim traverse · 38 m · he walks as fast as you scroll
09 m · 1.62 m/s²
You weigh a sixth. Your mass doesn’t.
Starting is effortless. Stopping takes planning. By the second hour you stop walking and start to lope.
17 m · No air
Every grain flies the same arc.
With nothing to slow it, kicked dust rises on a perfect parabola and lands at the same instant as the pebble next to it. No cloud. No drift. Just geometry.
25 m · Look back
These will outlast the pyramids.
No wind, no rain, no frost. Your prints will stay exactly like this until a micrometeorite finds them, in about ten million years.
36 m · Home
The gold one is yours.
A guest walks thirty-one kilometres in a week, about forty thousand steps. Your suit counts every one of them.
02 The outpost
Built on a ridge that almost never sees night.
Shackleton Rim is one of the Moon’s peaks of near-eternal light. The Sun circles the horizon instead of setting, and our arrays turn to follow it. Two hundred metres away, the crater floor hasn’t seen sunlight in two billion years.
- 38 m³pressurised, per guest pair
- −173 °Cin the crater, 400 m below
- 1.3 sto call home, each way
03 The seven days
At the pole, the Sun doesn’t set. It walks around you.
Scroll through the week. The Sun travels eighty-five degrees around the horizon, and every shadow on the rim turns with it like the hand of a clock.
- Day 1
Touchdown
Twelve minutes of powered descent from lunar orbit. Suit checks, then your first step onto the rim.
- Day 2
The long walk
A guided four-kilometre traverse along the ridge. You learn the lope, the slow bounding gait the Moon rewards.
- Day 3
Into the dark
A lamp-lit descent into a permanently shadowed crater, where water ice has waited since before the dinosaurs.
- Day 4
Earth day
Rest in the cabin. Call home, then watch the continents turn slowly in the window.
- Day 5
De Gerlache rim
Pressurised rover to the neighbouring crater. Lunch looking down four kilometres of cliff.
- Day 6
Leave one thing
Bury a sealed capsule in the regolith. We log the coordinates. It will outlive every city on Earth.
- Day 7
Ascent
Liftoff, rendezvous, three days drifting home. The prints stay.
04 Training & medical
Six weeks on Earth for seven days up there.
No flying experience required. Fitness matters more than age: our oldest guest was seventy-one. You train in Houston and Cologne, alongside the crew who will fly you.
Weeks 1–2
Partial gravity
A harness carries five-sixths of your weight while you learn to walk, lope, and fall on simulant regolith.
Weeks 3–4
Launch loads
Four centrifuge sessions building to 4 g, so the ride up feels like something you have already done.
- Suit scan±0.4 mm
- Cardiac stressCleared
- Bone densityCleared
- VestibularCleared
- Radiation baselineLogged
Weeks 5–6
Suit & surgeon
Your suit is cut to a 3D scan of your body. Cardiac, bone-density and vestibular screening, and a flight surgeon on every stay.
05 Price
$4.2Mall-inclusive.
- Launch from LC-39B and the return home
- Six weeks of training, medical and lodging
- A suit cut to your body. It’s yours to keep.
- Seven days, every EVA, every meal
- Insurance, flight surgeon, one call home a day
- Your footprints, which are permanent
Deposit fully refundable until training begins · next window October 2031 · 4 of 12 seats remain