Its an absolute pleasure being involved in this global space analog experiment. Overall, everything is going smoothly with the WBA mission. Just a few data anomalies, as is normal in any science project. Its all getting smoothed out. I’m keeping a spreadsheet which is like an inventory of data....

After 18 months of preparation, my WBA experiment examining the emotional responses of astronauts (ERAs) finally kicks-off. Tonight I am on a call to meet and brief an international crew – 12 space habitats are participating in a variety of science aaround the world from Australia to Brazil 🧑‍🚀🚀👩‍🚀...

Hello from Dr Patrick Stacey! What have I/we been up to? Quite alot! First, we have submitted a paper on the emotional health of astronauts as depicted in movies to a prestigious journal! Now work begins on a paper which focuses on socialized emotion in small astronaut crews/teams. We...

I am delighted to announce that our experiment has accepted by the European Space Agency (ESA). This was a competitive bid. It has been selected for ESA’s Analog Astronaut mission, hosted in Germany. It will produce a massive dataset and will feature audio-visual computational analytics of astronaut diaries concerning...

we are very excited to announce that our experiment has accepted by the international body which governs space analog missions, the WBA. This was a competitive bid. In this experiment we will be conducting pre-and post-mission interviews with astronauts as well as capturing daily diary data from them in...

We have been working away, secretly in our caves, submitting proposals here and there. For example, the World’s Biggest Analog, Space-Expo (Bremen), and soon to the AHRC, and ESA. Alot of exciting moves and we look fwd to sharing more in the future....

Over the past year having attended various space Industry conferences and academic events we have been building up a wonderful network of parties interested in the human factors of space flight. We are pleased to announced we are forming an international network of research partners to investigate the mental...

We are proud Nina is presenting our paper on “Is there a place for emotions in space? An analysis of astronauts’ Twitter profiles“. Here is the abstract: This paper explores the emotional experiences of astronauts during space missions by analysing tweets using the notion of ‘scripts’. While space research...

We have now submitted our final paper to the EGOS conference which widens and resonates the debate with extreme work. Dr Nina Jorden will represent our paper which draws on Twitter data to examine emotional scripts within the context of complex systems. Go team!...

We are looking forward to going into a new gear with our research into the mental / emotional health of astronauts. We are holding a bid writing workshop tomorrow in which we will prepare proposals for ESRC and EPSRC. Space is awesome....