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AUSTRIAN SPACE FORUM (OeWF)
The Austrian Space Forum is an active, cross-linked space association with a wide spectrum of topics – a true citizen science organisation. They have been conducting Mars analog missions for many years, with their most recent mission AMADEE20 taking place in October 2021. Twitter: @oewf Instagram: @oewf_org Facebook: www.facebook.com/spaceforum/ Website: oewf.org/en/ |
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BLUE ABYSS
This pioneering centre will be the most comprehensive deep sea and space research, training and test facility of its kind in the world, unmatched in its breadth of configuration. Blue Abyss’ primary function is to enable extreme environment development, both human and robotic, ranging from the offshore energy industry through to the growing human spaceflight sector and adventure tourism. Twitter: @BlueAbyssDiving Facebook: www.facebook.com/BlueAbyssPool Website: blueabyss.uk/ |
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CONCORDIA STATION
Antarctica has all the wonder and appeal of space - harsh, vast & mysterious - but with the advantage of being easier to reach! Peppered throughout the peninsula are research stations like Concordia, a collaboration between the French Polar Institute and Italian Antarctic programme. Concordia is one of only three bases inhabited all year, and is located at the mountain plateau called Dome C. Experiments are already years in the running, meaning researchers can test effective countermeasures such as light therapy to improve sleep, awareness and mood. Concordia research is not limited to the human body and mind alone. Meteorology and glaciology studies are a mainstay here, providing valuable data on ice composition and loss and climate change. Website: blogs.esa.int/concordia/ www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Human_and_Robotic_Exploration/Concordia |
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DESERT MARS ANALOG RAMON STATION (D-MARS)
The first Israeli Space Simulation Station. D-MARS is a space analog research centre in Israel, in which analog astronauts go on a scientific journey of exploration that simulates an actual mission on the surface of the planet Mars. Today, space analogs are becoming well-developed sectors of space science disciplines, used to train future human explorers, test related hardware and make space more accessible to the general public. Twitter: @DMARSAnalog Instagram: @dmars_spaceanalog Facebook: www.facebook.com/SpaceAnalog/ Website: www.d-mars.org |
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ESA CAVES & PANGAEA
Astronaut Exploration Team Training in Extreme & Planetary Analog Environments. CAVES Cooperative Adventure for Valuing and Exercising human behaviour and performance Skills (CAVES) & Planetary ANalogue Geological & Astrobiological Exercise for Astronauts (PANGAEA). Twitter: @ESA_CAVES Facebook: www.facebook.com/EsaCaves/ Website: blogs.esa.int/caves; www.esa.int/caves |
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HABITAT MARTE
Based in Brazil, the station Habitat Marte is the only Mars analog habitat in operation in the southern hemisphere. Twitter: @habitatmarte Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/HabitatMarte Website: https://habitatmarte.com/ |
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HAWAI'I SPACE EXPLORATION ANALAOG (HI SEAS)
HI-SEAS (Hawai’i Space Exploration Analog and Simulation) is a Habitat on an isolated Mars-like site on the Mauna Loa side of the Big Island of Hawaii at approximately 8200 feet above sea level. It offers not only physical isolation and geological similarity, it also has a robust system of high-latency communication between Crew and Mission Support that imposes a Mars-like 20-minute delay on message reception each way. Crews are selected to conduct high-fidelity analog tasks, such as geological field work carried out by human explorers and/or robots. Twitter: @HI_SEAS Website: hi-seas.org Facebook: www.facebook.com/pages/category/Community/Hawaii-Space-Exploration-Analog-Simulation-281387055255817/ |
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HUMAN EXPLORATION RESEARCH ANALOG (HERA)
HERA is a unique three-story habitat designed to serve as an analog for isolation, confinement, and remote conditions in exploration scenarios, located at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston. With characteristics of a generic crewed spacecraft, HERA is a ground-based analog used by NASA’s Human Research Program to study the effects of isolation and confinement on humans. NASA is planning a human mission to the Moon in 2024. Researchers use analogs like HERA to develop safeguards to the hazards of spaceflight. Website: www.nasa.gov/analogs/hera |
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HYDRONAUT PROJECT
Hydronaut DeepLab is a research and training station designed for long-term stays of small groups of scuba divers underwater. The station was designed for wide spectrum of underwater and space research, ranging from the impact of isolation and extreme environment on human psychology to testing technology functioning under extreme pressure. Website: https://hydronaut.eu/en Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/projecthydronaut/ |
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LUNARES RESEARCH STATION
LunAres Research Station, built in 2017, is an analog research facility located at an ex-military airport in Poland. It provides full isolation capability, enabling complex research focused on the psychological and physiological impact of the long-term human presence in extra-terrestrial environments. The station can cater for 2-week Lunar and Martian simulation missions for a 6-person crew.. Email: info@lunares.space Website: https://lunares.space/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/lunares.space |
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LUNARK
Lunark is a habitat designed and made by Danish architects Sebastian Aristotelis & Karl-Johan Sørensen, who both attended the International Space University in Delft. At the same time, they won an international architecture competition for a Mars habitat and founded SAGA Space Architects - their design studio focused on space architecture. They are building the first moon habitat analogue in the arctic regions of Greenland, and enduring dangerous environments for 3 months. They believe in order to properly understand how living on the Moon affects the body and mind, we need to feel the struggle to survive in the extreme reality north of the arctic circle. Email: studio@asaga.space Website: lunark.space/expedition/ |
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MARS ACADEMY USA (MAU)
MAU creates a new paradigm in learning using exponential technologies, simulation-based learning, and edutainment. The organisation aims to train the Next-Gen Analog Astronauts, Visionaries, Scientists, and Astroprenuers. MAU missions are fully immersive "in-person" real-time simulations and crew teams live, work and collaborate together during missions. Expedition analog astronaut teams operate in isolated and/or confined (I.C.E.) environments in areas designated as Mars analogs on Earth. Facebook: www.facebook.com/marsacademyusa/ Email: training@marsacademy.space Website: marsacademyusa.com |
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MARS DESERT RESEARCH STATION (MDRS)
The Mars Desert Research Station in the Utah desert was established by the Mars Society in 2001 to better educate researchers, students and the general public about how humans can survive on the Red Planet. Their activities at MDRS are not only about informing the public, but also conducting real research to bring humanity that much closer to the reality of human exploration on the planet Mars. Annual field seasons at MDRS run approx. October through May. Anyone can apply to be on a crew, and project volunteers are also needed. Twitter: @MDRSupdates Instagram: @themarssociety Facebook: www.facebook.com/themdrs/ Website: mdrs.marssociety.org |
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NASA EXTREME ENVIRONMENT MISSION OPERATIONS (NEEMO)
NEEMO - the NASA Extreme Environment Mission Operations project - is a NASA analog mission that sends groups of astronauts, engineers and scientists to live in Aquarius, the world's only undersea research station, for up to three weeks at a time. Operated by Florida International University (FIU). Much like space, the undersea world is a hostile, alien place for humans to live. NEEMO crew members, known as aquanauts, experience some of the same challenges there that they would on a distant asteroid, planet or moon. During NEEMO missions, the aquanauts are able to simulate living on a spacecraft and test spacewalk techniques for future space missions. Twitter: @NASA_NEEMO Website: www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/NEEMO/about_neemo.html Facebook: en-gb.facebook.com/NASANEEMO/ |
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NEUTRAL BUOYANCY LABORATORY (NBL)
The Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory is an astronaut training facility and neutral buoyancy pool operated by NASA and located at the Sonny Carter Training Facility, near the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. The diving tank is 202 feet (62 m) in length, 102 feet (31 m) wide, and 40 feet 6 inches (12.34 m) deep, and contains 6.2 million gallons (23.5 million litres) of water. The NBL contains full-scale mock-ups of International Space Station (ISS) modules and payloads. Astronauts perform simulated EVA tasks in preparation for upcoming missions. Trainees wear suits designed to provide neutral buoyancy to simulate the microgravity that astronauts would experience during spaceflight. Facebook: en-gb.facebook.com/NASANBL/ Website: www.nasa.gov/image-feature/neutral-buoyancy-laboratory |
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PROJECT PoSSUM
PoSSUM is the first and only crewed suborbital research program. Why be a ‘spaceflight participant’ when you can now enable important climate research and learn from the world’s best space scientists and astronaut instructors? Hosted at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, PoSSUM is the only program that trains you to be a Citizen Scientist-Astronaut. All students are trained to conduct PoSSUM suborbital noctilucent cloud tomography missions while receiving skills required for all PoSSUM citizen-science research programs. Twitter:@PoSSUMAstronaut Facebook: www.facebook.com/projectpossum/ Website: projectpossum.org/#homes |
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SCIENTIFIC INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH IN A UNIQUE TERRESTRIAL STATION (SIRIUS)
SIRIUS-18/19 is an international mission conducted in the NEK (IBMP Ground-based Experimental Complex) ground-based analog facility in Moscow. This mission studies the effects of isolation and confinement on human psychology, physiology and team dynamics to help prepare for long-duration space exploration. Previously conducted a four-month mission from March to July 2019. Other NEK missions in the SIRIUS series are planned to be 8 and 12 months in duration. NASA’s Human Research Program (HRP) is involved with seven research investigations in SIRIUS-18/19, with plans for longer duration missions of 8 and 12 months. Website: www.nasa.gov/content/sirius |
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UK ANALOGUE MISSION
Project developing UK-based space analogue missions, helping to inspire STEM opportunities, technological advancements & human spaceflight research. UKAM recently teamed up with AdvancingX, based in Sacramento, CA, and dedicated to advancing the application of human-centred team design, team performance and outcomes through research and human factors metrics. They have launched a ‘Career Astronaut’ Competition that accepts candidates with STEM backgrounds and trains them in various locations around the world. Using their advanced Organisational Team Index (OTI) algorithms and Machine Learning they will assemble the best possible teams for space exploration. Contact via social media or at admin@ukam.space Twitter: @ukam_space Instagram: @ukam_space Facebook:www.facebook.com/ukamspace Website: ukam.space/ |