SATURDAY MAY 2ND
DAY 3
6:00AM: Morning Navigation Hike w/ Jesbaam Sanchez and Silvia García
6:30AM (Sahara Room): AstroMeditation - Breathwork for the Stars w/ Karim Nahabet
7:00AM: Continental Breakfast served till 8:20AM
8:30AM (Sahara Room): Opening and Announcements
9:00AM: Break
9:30AM (Sahara Room): Thorsten Eschweiler - From Ocean Depths to Orbital Horizons to Martian Heights: Scuba Mentorship as the Scalable Pathway for Citizen Astronauts and Communities on Earth and Beyond
9:30AM (Lower Habitat): Nicole Bolado - Lettuce Go to the Moon: What Analog Missions Teach Us About Space Crop Viability
9:50AM (Sahara Room): Sandra Herrmann - The Integrated Crewmember: Bridging Technical Rigor and Psychological Resilience in Analog Environments
9:50AM (Lower Habitat): Mikołaj Zawadzki and Yuliia Biliak - Analog space base in a nickel mine in Poland
10:10AM (Sahara Room): Karim Nahabet - AST-ICE: An Independent WBA Experiment on Meditation and Performance.
10:10AM (Lower Habitat): Simon Rose - Clothing for the Next Frontier & Beyond - A speculative look at how space environments may influence fashion and identity
10:30AM (Sahara Room): Julio Rezende - Overview Effect during Space Analog Missions: Habitat Marte Lessons
10:50AM: Break
11:30AM (Sahara Room): Gopal Katkoria - Medical Emergency in a Space Analog Habitat
11:30AM (Lower Habitat): Allyson Robinson - Authoritarian Plumbing, Democratic Possibilities: How Life Support Design Shapes Governance in Early Space Settlements
11:50AM (Sahara Room): Russ Nelson - Establishing a Governance-Based Safety Architecture for Mars Analog Missions
11:50AM (Lower Habitat): Hayk Aslanyan - Governance, Infrastructure, and Execution: A Three-Stage Model for International Human–AI Collaborative Spaceflight
12:10PM (Sahara Room): Jason Kring - Bridging Horizons: Applying Aviation Human Factors Taxonomies to Analog Space Missions
12:10PM (Lower Habitat): Natalia Godlewska - Beyond the Perfect Astronaut: Who Gets to Live on Mars?
12:30PM: Lunch
2:00PM (Sahara Room): Afternoon Refresher, Announcements
2:15PM (Sahara Room): World's Biggest Analog Panel w/ Dr. Gopal Katkoria, Jenn Pint, Sabine Proctor, Lucas Alderette
3:00PM: Break
3:30PM (Sahara Room): Scott Beibin and Elizabeth Cole - Field Testing the Tardigrade v.1 EMU (Extravehicular Mobility Unit) Under Pressure in the Badlands
3:30PM (Lower Habitat): Dr. Claire Nelson - Operational Guideline Development from Africa’s First Lunar Desert Analog Habitat: Lessons from Mission MWEZI One
3:50PM (Sahara Room): Julio Rezende - Astrodesertanism: Cosmos and deserts influencing human consciousness— Insights from Habitat Marte and Desert-Based Space Analog Missions
3:50PM (Lower Habitat): Walt Ross - The Simplest Forms of Life: A Roadmap to Feeding Humans Anywhere
4:10PM (Sahara Room): Tasha Coelho - On the Nature of Martian and Lunar Dust
4:10PM (Lower Habitat): Miroslav Rozložník - Virtual coach for ICE environment - Explores how AI-driven virtual coaching can support performance, resilience, and decision-making in isolated, confined, extreme environments
4:30PM: Break
5:00PM (Sahara Room) Workshop: Makiah Eustice - Build Your Purpose-Driven Analog - Design your dream analog mission, then refine it using IGSA principles to make it mission-ready
5:00PM (Lower Habitat) Workshop: Barbra Sobhani - Nature Journaling in a Habitat - Build observation and sketching skills through nature journaling—a practice used by scientists, artists, and explorers
6:30PM: Dinner
After Dinner Entertainment:
Live Music
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