all-vegan zero-waste astronaut training facility that explores the overlap of space settlement with preparation for the future of climate bio-devastation of Earth.
A fully immersive offworld simulation with inter-connected domes is being created in California to welcome several aspiring astronauts for an inaugural yovage of one month in 2025. The project focuses on skill building and community building exercises, nutrient rich indoor food growth, collaboration, collective action and human autonomy, as well as innovate offworld technology.
Technology used within the simulation: LiDAR, offworld rovers, communications tools, multiple stream water-management and purification as well as autonomous power production.
Designing M.A.R.S. Tesseract-1: An ecologically sustainable all-vegan astronaut training facility
Abstract: Offworld.Voyage is an astronaut training project focused on the design and development of self-contained ecologically sustainable all-vegan research facilities – intended for use in live immersive simulation missions that solve for interplanetary exploration as well as adaptation to the extremes of a rapidly changing biosphere on Earth.
M.A.R.S. Tesseract-1 is an astronaut training facility being developed by Offworld.Voyage, designed for use in Mars surface analog simulations – consisting of modular interconnected living structures including an enclosed green-hab science lab, fab lab and flow space.
Research activities will include:
- EVAs utilizing sim-spacesuits embedded with biosensors
- On site cultivation of nutrient dense foods
- Experiments in development of open source decentralized communications and coordination tools and protocols
- Mission Support / Mission Control training
- Geological analysis and mapping
- Off-grid and autonomous power production
- Exercises in extreme reduction of resource consumption
- Coordinated decision making and collective action
- Water purification and re-use
- Composting and re-processing of organic waste
- Creative on-site repair and recycling of all materials
The inaugural mission is currently scheduled to occur in an isolated and remote desert location in late 2025.
The project is co-founded by Mars Desert Research Station alumni Scott Beibin and Elizabeth Jane Cole.