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Inflatable Lunar-Mars Analog Habitat

The fall semester Brown Bag Seminar Series features graduate students providing presentations on their current research and recent internships.  This series begins on Wednesday, August 31st, featuring grad student Brittany Zimmerman’s research, presented by Dr. Vadim Rygalov, titled “Plant Module Development for Inflatable Lunar-Mars Habitat (ILMH)”. This series of presentations will be held in the […]

Coverage and interviews provided by University Relations, following the Lunar/Mars analog mission, can be found here.  Congratulations to crew members Carolyn Newton, Poonam Josan, Brittany Zimmerman and mission control member Sophie Orr on a successful mission!  This project is supervised by Dr. Pablo de Leon.

An Associated Press article regarding the recent Lunar/Mars 10-day analog mission can be found here.

WHO: An all-female international team of three graduate students boarded the University of North Dakota’s Inflatable Lunar-Mars Habitat (ILMH) WHAT: 10 day sealed mission aboard the UND ILMH concludes WHEN: CREW IS SCHEDULED TO EXIT ILMH 11 a.m. FRIDAY WHERE: UND ILMH located in industrial park west of I-29 off University Ave. (behind National Weather […]

On Tuesday, April 26, the first all-female graduate student crew entered the UND Inflatable Lunar/Mars Analog Habitat for a ten-day mission.  The crew consists of Brittany Zimmerman, Carolyn Newton and Poonam Josan, with Dr. Pablo de León and Sophie Orr serving as mission control. The mission will focus on bioregenerative life support systems, mood and […]

Space Studies master’s student, Travis Nelson, will defend his thesis as follows.  All Space Studies students, faculty and staff are encouraged to attend.  Please show your support! When:  Monday, March 23rd at 8:30am (Central time) Where:  Ryan Hall, Room 111 Title: 30 Day Lunar/Martian Planetary Habitation Analog: An Assessment of Crew Stress, Anxiety, and Performance About […]

The three  member crew of the 30-day Lunar/Mars analog mission exited the habitat on November 6th. Watch a UND Studio One video here.

Dr. Pablo de Leon and his group of three volunteers began a 30-day planetary analog mission on Wednesday, October 8th.  More details here from the Grand Forks Herald. A local television crew was on hand during the “send-off”.  You can watch the WDAZ broadcast from that evening’s news segment. Updates during the mission will be […]

Crew 133’s required crew video is now available on YouTube. Everyone did such a fantastic job describing their research, gathering video clips and lighting/filming each other. Be sure to watch through to the “Marswalks” near the end. There is also a Q&A session video with Crew 133 answering questions submitted to Space.com located here.

Follow complete coverage, from beginning to end, of the UND-led Crew 133 on their mock Mars mission at the Mars Desert Research Station here.   From a past news item: Seven UND Space Studies graduate students will spend two weeks “on Mars” in early January 2014. The students are forming part of two UND crews […]