• idegenszavak@sh.itjust.works
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    2 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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        2 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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      2 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.