• Skullgrid@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    What does the International Space Agency do? They don’t seem to be listed on wikipedia, and I just see things calling the woman on the left an “analog astronaut” with her in a spacesuit on earth

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        3 months ago

        search her name, then you get the stuff I’ve been seeing. I don’t go on facebook for obvious reasons.

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      3 months ago

      Yes, wtf is an analog astronaut. I used to play a lot of Kerbal Space Program, am I a digital astronaut?

      All I can find about her is interviews with her, no secondary sources. In one she says she is the founder of International Space Agency. Sounds like a media hack to spice up her resume.

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          3 months ago

          I found that later, forgot to add some “edit:”.

          But she tries to present herself as someone on the levels of Einstein, but she is just a university student who got some internship in a nasa project.

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        3 months ago

        Analogue missions are missions that simulate some aspect of the off-planet living conditions here.

        I talked for a while with these guys (who are students, but still seem pretty serious), they had a stand at a convention I visited, they use a tunnel in the alps to simulate a habitation module:

        https://make.epfl.ch/projects/25/association-asclepios-mission-25

        Analogue missions seem like a legitimate contribution to the success of real missions to me, you gotta test both psychological effects and the functionality of prototype devices somehow.