SATURDAY MAY 3RD
DAY 3
6:00AM: Morning workout with Gernot Groemer
7:00AM: Continental Breakfast served till 8:00AM
8:00AM (Lawn outside Biosphere 2): Group Photo (bring your flight suits)
8:30AM (Sahara Room): Colin A Lennox - Terrestrial Arcologies as a Test Bed for Space Analogue Components, and introduction to ArcologyX and their research.
8:30AM (Lower Habitat): Mikołaj Zawadzki - RAF - Analog Space Mission - The first analog space base on mining heaps
8:30AM (SAM) Workshop: Atila Meszaros and Luna Powell - SAM’S (most awesome) Bioregenerative Life Support Hydroponic Workshop (Max of 8 people)
9:00AM (Sahara Room): James Burk - Frontiers in Mars Analogs - Insights from the Mars Society's Twin Analog Stations
9:00AM (Lower Habitat): Kent Nebergall - Analogs As Accelerators
9:00AM (SAM) Workshop: Atila Meszaros and Luna Powell- SAM’S (most awesome) Bioregenerative Life Support Hydroponic Workshop (Max of 8 people)
9:40AM (Sahara Room): Griffin Hentzen - Design and Operation of SAM's CO2 Scrubber, and Implications for Future Analogs
9:40AM (Lower Habitat): Lucia White - Astrobotany and the US Space Force
9:40AM (SAM) Workshop: Atila Meszaros and Luna Powell - SAM’S (most awesome) Bioregenerative Life Support Hydroponic Workshop (Max of 8 people)
10:20AM: Break
11:00AM (Sahara Room): CodyDon Reeder - Project ChickenHole
11:00AM (Lower Habitat): Michael Murphy - No Longer Earthlings: Studying the Impacts of Extreme Journeys on Personal Identity
11:40AM (Sahara Room): Dr Sian Procotor - Art Experience (ticket required)
11:40AM (Lower Habitat): Donald Jacques - Paradigm Shift - Incorporating Selected Insects to convert Wastes into Nutrients for transfer into Food Systems both On and Off of Earth
12:10PM: Lunch
2:00PM (Sahara Room): John Read - How to Write and Publish Best Selling Space Books
2:00PM (Lower Habitat) Workshop: Andi Limon - AstroAccess: Advancing Accessibility in Space Habitat Design
2:40PM (Sahara Room) Workshop: Dan Novy - Zero-G-Ames
2:40PM (Lower Habitat) Workshop: Dr Jenni Hesterman - The Astronaut Mindset: Harnessing Emotional Intelligence for Success in Analog and Space Missions
3:20PM: Break
4:00PM (Sahara Room) Workshop: Thomas Hoffman - Aerospace Medicine in the support of Human Spaceflight (Max of 30 people)
4:00PM (Lower Habitat): Hayk Aslanyan - Back to Mars After 55 Years: From PrOP-M to AMADEE-24 and the Road to WBA
4:40PM (Sahara Room) Workshop: Thomas Hoffman - Aerospace Medicine in the support of Human Spaceflight (Max of 30 people)
4:40PM (Lower Habitat): Scott Beibin - Designing the M.A.R.S. Tesseract-1 habitat: An ecologically sustainable and all-vegan astronaut training facility for space settlement simulations.
5:10PM (Sahara Room): Dr Taania Girgla - Remote Guidance of Airway Management
5:10PM (Lower Habitat): Bryan Versteeg - Virtual Simulations of Analog Missions
5:45PM (Sahara Room): Dr Taania Girgla - Remote Guidance of Airway Management
5:45PM (Lower Habitat) Workshop: Karim Nahabet - AA Human Performance & Resilience: AstroMeditation and Breathwork (Max of 50 people)
6:30PM: Dinner
After Dinner Entertainment:
Live Music
Dreaming Big - Astronaut Portraits!
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