Using Analogue Space Missions to Teach and Prepare for Tomorrow
Analogue space missions are key for the future of space exploration. With the return to the Moon and coming exploration of Mars, analogue missions open a wide range of habitats, experiments and trainings to prepare for it. In addition to the progress made in science, analogue missions are an extremely interesting platform to teach and learn, how to push oneself, how to work optimally in teams and how to work for the future of humanity. Is space unsustainable ? No, not necessarily. And analogue missions are the proof of that.
Eleonore Poli is a final year PhD student in Materials and Metallurgy at the University of Cambridge (UK). She is also an engineer and analogue astronaut, and aims to improve analogue space missions via CHASM, the community on analogue space missions and by catalysing the rate at which experiments are sent to space.
