ANALOG MISSION ORGANISATIONS​

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 AMADEE24 taking place in March - April 2024 in Armenia.
Missions tend to run every 2 years in various locations, with multiple STEM outreach projects.
Twitter/X: @oewf  |  Instagram: @oewf_org   |  Website:  ​oewf.org/en/

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. ESA regularly puts out calls for medical research doctors to spend a year on the ice conducting researching into how humans adapt to living in extreme environments.
Website: LINK

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/X: @ESA_CAVES   
Website: LINK

CHAPEA
Crew Health and Performance Exploration Analog (CHAPEA) is a series of analog missions that will simulate year-long stays on the surface of Mars. Each mission will consist of four crew members living in Mars Dune Alpha, an isolated 1,700 square foot habitat. During the mission, the crew will conduct simulated spacewalks and provide data on a variety of factors, which may include physical and behavioural health and performance.
The inaugural CHAPEA (Crew Health and Performance Exploration Analog) crew is “back on Earth” after walking out of their simulated Martian habitat at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston on July 6th 2024. The first of three simulated missions, CHAPEA Mission 1 was designed to help scientists, engineers, and mission planners better understand how living on another world could affect human health and performance.
Website: LINK

HABITAT MARTE ANALOG STATION 
Located in the Brazilian semiarid rural region of Caiçara do Rio do Vento, 100km from Natal, the capital city of Rio Grande do Norte State, Brazil, and is the only Mars analog station operating in the southern hemisphere. Established in December 2017, activities have involved 1000 participants from 40 countries over the course of 190 missions, contributing 700+ videos to their Youtube channel.
Space simulation missions involve analog astronauts following space station protocols and routines. Spacesuits are used during extravehicular activities (EVAs) to maintain the reality of the Mars landscape. Aquaponic technologies are utilised to cultivate greenhouse food production.
Website:  Habitat Marte LINK  |  Youtube: LINK

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/X: @HI_SEAS     |   Website:  hi-seas.org

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 before 2030. Researchers use analogs like HERA to develop safeguards to the hazards of spaceflight.
Website:  LINK

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

IIAS
International Institute for Astronautical Sciences (IIAS) produces future scientists, engineers, operations professionals, and educators of the international space community by providing immersive educational experiences that produce peer-reviewed scientific publications, mature space technologies, and educate and inspire the next generation of space professionals.
Website:  https://astronauticsinstitute.org/

LUNAR HABITAT ANALOG MISSIONS
Lunar Habitat was created in 2024, with the first lunar analog mission in the southern hemisphere happening in the Habitat Marte Aerospace Complex, 29th May - 1st June 2024. The complex is located in the Brazilian semiarid rural region of Caiçara do Rio do Vento, 100 kms from Natal, the capital city of Rio Grande do Norte State, Brazil.
The first mission celebrated the 55th anniversary of the first Moon landing. Lunar Habitat benefits from the knowledge of more than 200 protocols and surveys, gained from operations conducted in the Habitat Marte space analog station, operating since December 2017.
Website:  Lunar Habitat LINK

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.
Website:  https://lunares.space/

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/X: @MDRSupdates | Instagram: @themarssociety  |  Website:  mdrs.marssociety.org

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/X: @NASA_NEEMO  |  ​Website: LINK

​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.
Website: LINK

SPACE HEALTH RESEARCH
Space Health Research specialise in analogue missions that simulate the exploration of space to advance benefits for life on Earth. We do this by deploying our analogue mission design to natural environments that have similarities to space – challenging conditions, limited resources, and isolated environments. Our analogue missions enable scientific and technological research for space exploration that reap benefits for life on Earth. We aim to inspire all nations through our space exploration experience programme, where people can gain certificated courses in skills that astronauts need during a space exploration mission.
 Website:  https://spacehealthresearch.com/