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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Latest perspectives.
Success – ESA Approves our Experiment – Emotional Responses of Astronauts (ERAs)
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 their emotional health under isolation conditions. […]
Read article ↗Success – Experiment Approved for the World’s Biggest Analog
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 an audio visual format. The videos […]
Read article ↗More Proposals Submitted
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.
Read article ↗Join our International Network
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 health of astronauts, with a specific […]
Read article ↗Dr Nina Jorden is Presenting at EGOS, Cagliari.
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 traditionally understands emotions as isolated and […]
Read article ↗EGOS Conference
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!
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