FRIDAY MAY 1ST
DAY 2
6:00AM (Patio Lawn): Operational Fitness for Analogs - Interstellar Performance Labs
7:00AM: Continental Breakfast served till 8:20AM
8:30AM (Sahara Room): AAC Welcome and Announcements
9:00AM (Sahara Room): Keynote, Dr. Eiman Jahangir, Blue Origin Astronaut
9:50AM: Break
10:00AM (Sahara Room): Community Updates - Dr. Jenni Hesterman and Emily Apollonio
11:00AM (Sahara Room): John Adams - Biosphere 2 Overview - How this unique, closed system helps us prepare for sustainable life beyond our planet
11:50AM (Sahara Room): Walt Ross - Silver Sponsor, Spacemilk - Founder and CEO
12:10PM: Lunch
11:50AM (Sahara Room): Afternoon Refresher, Announcements
2:00PM (Sahara Room) Workshop: Dr. Sian Proctor's Art Experience - Explore the intersection of art and space in this interactive session
2:00PM (Lower Habitat) Workshop: Cody Reeder - Composting 101: A hands-on crash course in composting. Learn how organic waste becomes a resource in closed-loop systems
3:15PM: Break
3:20PM (Sahara Room): Alires Almon - Designing for the Edge - The Hidden Influences of Systemic Hierarchies that Shape the Analog mission experience
3:20PM (Lower Habitat): Don Jacques - Overview of CIRES - A Compact Intensive Regenerative Ecological System
3:50PM (Sahara Room): Karim Nahabet - AstroMeditation - Optimizing Analog Astronaut Performance and Resilience. With Breathwork for the Stars
3:50PM (Lower Habitat): Kai Staats - A Year of Science at SAM: A 4-Bed CO2 Scrubber, Bioregeneration with Peas, a MedBay for the Moon, and SIMOC around the world.
4:10PM (Sahara Room): Emily Apollonio - Building Mission-Ready Teams: Human Factors Lessons from WBA
4:10PM (Lower Habitat): Matthias Beach - Bioregenerative Life support Systems: My 2 week solo stay experience in SAM during the WBA
4:30PM: Break
5:10PM (Sahara Room) Workshop: Rachel Tillman - 50 Years on Mars - Viking Anniversary
5:10PM (Lower Habitat) Workshop: Jumana Alshaikh - Elevating Brain Health for Future Missions: Strategies to prepare the brain for the unique stressors of the space environment
5:45PM (Lower Habitat) Workshop: Karim Nahabet - Breathwork & Transcending - An introduction to the connection between breath and consciousness, followed by a guided technique to support expanded awareness
6:30PM: Dinner
8:30PM - After Dinner Entertainment
"Wright of Passage" Documentary Screening with writer/director Lee Giat
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