FOR THE AIR, FOR THE CLIMATE.

For the first time in human history, humans flew free into the air.

On the 25th of January 2020, 'Aerocene Pacha', a fuel-free hot air balloon, lifted a person into the sky, landing safely back on earth using only sun and air we all breathe.

This journey set 32 unprecedented world records, recognized by the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale (FAI), with Aerocene pilot Leticia Noemi Marqués, who flew with the message “Water and Life are Worth More than Lithium” written by the communities of Salinas Grandes, Jujuy, Argentina.

We flew without fossil fuels, batteries, lithium, solar panels, helium, hydrogen and carbon emissions. This marks the most sustainable human flight in the history of aviation.

AT-08 Category

Duration: 16 minutes

Distance: 667.85 meters

*Certified by FAI (Fédération Aéronautique Internationale)

*A safe & certified vehicle

*For the female and general categories

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Lithium extraction contaminates the earth. 1 ton of lithium takes 500 000 liters of fresh water needed by communities to survive.
When we harm the environment, we harm the source of life. El agua y la vida valen mas que el litio!
Comunidad de Sal, Maximiliano Laina, 2020

Visualization of World Records setting Aerocene Pacha solar flight.

Saturday, January 25th, 2020 - Longest, highest Free Human Flight - 2.55 km distance, 272.1 mts altitude

The Mission

An aerosolar journey with one mission: to open up a renewed era of planetary and multispecies solidarity, with the air, for all of Earth—moving past the man-made violence that incites climate change and mass extinction, and into Aerocene.

"Change habits,
not the climate"

The Balloon

Utilising lighter-than-air technology, Fly with Aerocene Pacha saw a ground-breaking aerosolar balloon attune to the weather and atmospheric conditions, lifting a human into aerosolar movement, only with the power of the sun

“Humans have always dreamed of flying. Today that dream has become a nightmare. What if we could fly differently?”

Tomás Saraceno

The Community

The mission brings together representatives of the Salinas Grandes’ native communities, together with multidisciplinary, transnational bodies from art and science, to anthropology, ballooning, engineering and beyond...

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Instagram and Aerocene.org!