ESA SOLIS100
ESA SOLIS100 Mission Update – Data Collection Complete
September 25, 2026
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The human dimension of space.
Investigating emotional health, human connection and life in extreme environments.
ERAS artwork / Patrick StaceyLed by Dr Patrick StaceyInterviews · Audiovisual diaries · Computational analysis
Featured researchEmotional Responses
Emotional Responses
of Astronauts
Exploring how social, organisational and technological conditions shape emotional life in analogue missions.
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Mission studies / From the research journalUnderstanding life
Understanding life
beyond the familiar.
World’s Biggest Analog
WBA Space Analog Mission Data Collection Complete
February 16, 2026
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ESA SOLIS100 Mission Update – Data Collection Complete
At the end of July, data collection for the European Space Agency’s SOLIS100 mission was completed. Alongside the pre-experiment interviews and diary data, I conducted post-mission interviews with all of the astronauts. The indicative findings are extremely insightful and, in many ways, bring me full circle in my 20-year research career with respect to some […]
Read article ↗A New Age of Emotion in Space: Launching the ERAs Experiment at DLR/ESA
Tomorrow I will be training analogue astronauts at DLR/ESA as we begin our Emotional Responses of Astronauts (ERAs) experiment. This feels especially timely. The recent Artemis 2 mission has highlighted just how important this area of research is. As the crew described their views of the Moon, their observations were not only technical or operational. They were […]
Read article ↗WBA Space Analog Mission Data Collection Complete
This experiment on the emotional responses of astronauts (ERAs) went even better than I could’ve imagined! I have almost 400 5-minute files of audiovisual diary data! The next steps involve cleaning and redacting the data as I prepare for the analytical pipeline – this will involve topic modelling and sentiment analysis. However, what is the […]
Read article ↗WBA First Week Reflections
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. In this way I can track […]
Read article ↗WBA Begins
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 🧑🚀🚀👩🚀 hashtag#crewmeeting hashtag#spacehabitats hashtag#astronauts hashtag#emotionalresponses hashtag#spacepsychology hashtag#emotionalhealth […]
Read article ↗Summer Updates!
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 uploaded our paper on astronaut Twitter […]
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