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From the Microscope to the Telescope
Research Projects
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Project Highlights
Our projects running on an annual basis
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Haptica Terra
An Ethnographic Study Around the World
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EXPERIMENTS
© NeurAstra
Haptica Terra is a travelling ethnographic expedition that sets out to rediscover the world through the sense of touch. At a time when our relationship with environments is increasingly mediated, abstracted, or digitalised, this project returns to the most direct and intimate form of encounter: haptic experience. Across cultures, landscapes, and ways of life, Haptica Terra explores how gestures of touch shape the bonds between humans and their surroundings.
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Voices of Spacefarers (VoS Programme)
Designing Space for Humans, With Humans
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RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT
© Don Pettit
Voices of Spacefarers (VoS) is a long-term research and development programme dedicated to understanding human space exploration from the inside out. Beyond mission timelines, technical achievements, and performance data, VoS focuses on what is often left unspoken: the lived, embodied, and emotional experiences of those who make spaceflight possible. Bringing together perspectives from spacefarers, mission support personnel, scientists, and analogue astronauts, the programme collects first-person narratives that reveal how individuals adapt to the physical, cognitive, and social realities of space environments.
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H.A.P.M.O.S. Stories of Human Adaptation
Psychological and Physiological Alterations in ICE Environments
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EXPERIMENTS
© NeurAstra/EAC
H.A.P.M.O.S. — Stories of Human Adaptation is an experimental research initiative dedicated to understanding how humans psychologically and physiologically adapt to Isolated, Confined, and Extreme (ICE) environments. Grounded in space analogue settings, the project explores what happens to the human body and mind when everyday references, social, sensory, temporal, and environmental, are profoundly altered.
Through longitudinal qualitative studies combined with targeted physiological measurements, H.A.P.M.O.S. captures the lived experience of individuals operating in conditions that mirror key constraints of space missions. These include isolation, confinement, operational pressure, environmental hostility, and prolonged exposure to uncertainty. Rather than focusing solely on performance outcomes, the initiative examines well-being, resilience, vulnerability, and adaptation as dynamic processes unfolding over time.
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