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Maiden Flight Credit: The Mediated Matter Group https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6005b59a4616fd2204d8fb95/1631293236301-2E7IMQNYSVWQ007VIQKN/02_MMG_MaidenFlight_OpenCapsule.jpg Catalog - Maiden Flight Credit: The Mediated Matter Group https://www.explore-space.mit.edu/catalog/agrifuge monthly 0.5 2021-09-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6005b59a4616fd2204d8fb95/1629398426882-TZ9WBSR3PLLPU81ZI27X/agrifuge02.jpg Catalog - AgriFuge Credit: Somayajulu Dhulipala and Manwei Chan https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6005b59a4616fd2204d8fb95/1629398714918-WGCHQO0EXLTD3KOND302/agrifuge03.jpg Catalog - AgriFuge Credit: Somayajulu Dhulipala and Manwei Chan https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6005b59a4616fd2204d8fb95/1629398735698-B882YPA9ELND87P3GIA7/agrifuge01.jpg Catalog - AgriFuge Credit: Somayajulu Dhulipala and Manwei Chan https://www.explore-space.mit.edu/catalog/tag/biome monthly 0.5 https://www.explore-space.mit.edu/catalog/tag/exobiome monthly 0.5 https://www.explore-space.mit.edu/catalog/tag/envirome monthly 0.5 https://www.explore-space.mit.edu/sei-news daily 0.75 2021-09-08 https://www.explore-space.mit.edu/sei-news/space-food-that-will-keep-us-human monthly 0.5 2021-09-08 https://www.explore-space.mit.edu/sei-news/how-to-build-a-home-on-the-moon monthly 0.5 2021-08-17 https://www.explore-space.mit.edu/press daily 0.75 2021-09-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6005b59a4616fd2204d8fb95/1631817746385-XGYF039AGQU54DSNT4G8/sei-book.png Press - Make it stand out Cover art by Josh Simpson & Sands Fish https://www.explore-space.mit.edu/contact daily 0.75 2021-09-14 https://www.explore-space.mit.edu/home daily 1.0 2024-08-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6005b59a4616fd2204d8fb95/1633186195397-QSWQDLMQCOZB82UU614O/unsplash-image-zoFbfT0M_BU.jpg Home - Biome On Earth, biomes serve to organize or classify communities of plants and animals that share key characteristics of their environment. The biome framing calls attention to those aspects of our portfolio that deal directly with the human body and the communities of microbes that will accompany us on our early space voyages. Learn More → https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6005b59a4616fd2204d8fb95/1612543894271-MM3A6ZB8EFE6VWGW4HLY/MIT_LAB_TESSARAE_01_A04.jpg Home - Envirome Our Envirome research integrates creative interior design, industrial design of day-to-day artifacts, health and wellbeing diagnostics, and environmental stimuli to support inhabitant flourishing.This research platform builds towards a near-future where space-faring humans can both survive and thrive wherever the future takes us. Learn More → https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6005b59a4616fd2204d8fb95/1633187101173-JMQPY5SX4D4MUTP1Z14N/unsplash-image-CpHNKNRwXps.jpg Home - Exobiome Outside the meticulously crafted shells that will ferry our fragile human biology through the extreme environment of space, we find an expansive domain to explore. SEI has just scratched the surface of the exobiome — that which lies just outside or beyond our vision for life in space. Learn More → https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6005b59a4616fd2204d8fb95/1631817178419-O5RGCMGIOFJLIBLYQ1I9/sei-book.png Home - Into the Anthropocosmos Learn more about how SEI’s mission and methods have shaped the past five years of participatory space exploration at the Initiative in Into the Anthropocosmos, a lavishly illustrated catalog released in honor of SEI’s 5th anniversary. https://www.explore-space.mit.edu/portfolio daily 0.75 2021-09-14 https://www.explore-space.mit.edu/flight-missions daily 0.75 2021-09-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6005b59a4616fd2204d8fb95/1614096915150-AZ692BR976AVY19HH3T6/Daco_4530580.png Flight Missions - Lunar Missions The rise in commercial launch providers associated with the NASA Artemis Program offers MIT a promising new route to the Moon. Akin to the revolution in small satellite “rideshares” that enabled a wave of CubeSat launches and innovation, launch opportunities are now emerging on which we can manifest multiple MIT payloads on NASA-anchored missions to the lunar surface (via CLPS, the Commercial Lunar Payload Services initiative). With payload concepts growing out of a novel graduate course co-taught by SEI and MIT AeroAstro in Spring 2021, MIT is poised to field several payloads in the next 6-18 months, with more to come as research matures. Through a mission integration and launch program to be led by the SEI, for the benefit of all MIT community members, we are in the process of preparing for an Institute-wide “MIT Returns to the Moon to Stay” lunar surface mission. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6005b59a4616fd2204d8fb95/1611267114235-DSS5UYH6910I1D6HR4UZ/iss-png.png Flight Missions - International Space Station In March 2020, the SEI launched five payloads to the ISS on SpaceX CRS- 20. The payloads were deployed over a 30 day internal mission, allowing the research teams to study the effects of microgravity, on-station radiation, and launch loads on their hardware. This mission marks the Media Lab’s first launch to the ISS and a major milestone for the Space Exploration Initiative. We have since chartered additional deployments, including 4 payloads to launch together on another 30 day mission in December 2021. Read more about SEI’s 2020 ISS Launch → https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6005b59a4616fd2204d8fb95/1628881887041-G9356U1V0ZO8FDGTC0GT/blue-origin.png Flight Missions - Suborbital Launches The SEI launched six payloads on Blue Origin’s suborbital rocket, New Shepard, in May 2019. These payloads crossed the 100 km Karman line and tested research during three minutes of sustained microgravity inside the capsule before returning safely to earth. This mission marks MIT’s first research launch with Blue Origin, and MIT Media Lab’s first suborbital launch. The SEI launched with Blue Origin again in August 2021, has confirmed slots on an additional 2 launches, and intends to regularly offer suborbital launch opportunities as part of the milestone development for projects accepted into our continuation portfolio. Read more about SEI’s Blue Origin Launch → https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6005b59a4616fd2204d8fb95/1615860799300-JYJ2P498LV29N4DRIWQQ/zero-g.png Flight Missions - Zero-G Parabolic Flights The SEI charters an annual ZERO-G parabolic flight for up to 14 projects and 25 researchers across MIT Media Lab, several departments at MIT, and outside collaborators. The ZERO-G aircraft flies multiple parabolas (or extended arcs in the sky) to generate repeated periods of 15-20 seconds of weightlessness for the flyers and their research. This experience offers new and old SEI members, alike, an unparalleled opportunity to personally accompany their research and experience the counter-intuitive nature of microgravity. Read more about SEI’s parabolic flights → https://www.explore-space.mit.edu/outreach daily 0.75 2021-09-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6005b59a4616fd2204d8fb95/1631554416473-KRVHPN8CTY81KP9HB8DV/sei-showcase-jimmyday01.jpg Outreach - Monthly Roundtables & SEI Showcase The Space Exploration Initiative facilitates monthly roundtable meetings to engage the MIT community in space based research and hosts an annual showcase to share its capstone projects. In November 2019, SEI’s Showcase in the Media Lab atrium demoed projects from the Zero G Flight, Blue Origin Suborbital Launch, upcoming ISS Mission, and NASA-supported TRISH space health research program. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6005b59a4616fd2204d8fb95/1616016064004-5X8XMV0L1ILKNXYTC97V/sojourner2020-01-credit-WenjunLiang.jpg Outreach - Sojourner 2020 Sojourner 2020, the first ever international open-call for art in low Earth orbit, successfully launched onboard SpaceX CRS-20 to the International Space Station (ISS) in March 2020. Sojourner 2020 remained onboard the ISS for a 30-day mission before returning to Earth. This collection of 18 artifacts, from nine artist teams around the globe, is one of five payloads launched with the Space Exploration Initiative, in the Nanoracks BlackBox enclosure. Read more about Sojourner 2020 → https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6005b59a4616fd2204d8fb95/1616016742396-7WUBJL3QPBEXQ9ULHYJ9/c3-2-avery.jpg Outreach - Climate CubeSat Co-Build (C3) Developed in partnership with MIT AeroAstro and Lincoln Laboratory, C3 is a multitiered outreach platform that aims to enable learning communities — classrooms, cities, and public libraries, nationally and internationally — to gain technical literacy in fundamental principles of climate science, small spacecraft engineering, and data analysis in a highly collaborative setting. Read more about the C3 project → https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6005b59a4616fd2204d8fb95/1630000013501-M7MTENLJRFAYC55F1ODW/to-the-moon-to-stay3.jpg Outreach - To The Moon To Stay In the spring of 2020, SEI began a series of “Lunar Lunches,” a set of weekly convenings inviting the broader MIT community to engage with the project, to share compelling and creative ideas to overcome challenges to achieving a sustainable future on the Moon and continue the vision of “off the Earth, for the Earth.” Learn more about To The Moon To Stay → https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6005b59a4616fd2204d8fb95/1616016455676-1ID22B3OM72UE6E6NAX5/workshop-avery.jpg Outreach - Workshops & Media Lab “ML Talks” SEI has hosted a series of special talks and workshops on and off campus on topics including life in space, microgravity design, space health and wellbeing, the ethics of space exploration, and space law. Outside of MIT, SEI has hosted talks and workshops at conferences including SXSW and IAC, and other academic institutions such as Harvard, Yale, NYU, and RISD. In addition to creative, hands-on workshops, the SEI hosts notable guests for a public lecture series with our broader community, including leading space industry executives, scientists, lawyers, and philosophers. https://www.explore-space.mit.edu/team daily 0.75 2021-10-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6005b59a4616fd2204d8fb95/1611615129556-FMGA55ITVNOCALLSK62I/SEI-Crew-2019.jpg Team https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6005b59a4616fd2204d8fb95/1631648827686-R0OKUJ5YGRSP16DUCCOM/UndergradMatrix.pptx+%281%29.png Team - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6005b59a4616fd2204d8fb95/1611091764873-O8YCHDBCM2DV708YWGC5/team_Ariel.jpg Team Dr. Ariel Ekblaw, Founder & Director https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6005b59a4616fd2204d8fb95/1611091784978-YVR0JT40TG2BR6X5IH2K/team_Sean.jpg Team Sean Auffinger, Mission Integrator https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6005b59a4616fd2204d8fb95/1611091764499-A76RLU1PPSXRRZYAPBE6/team_Joe.jpg Team Prof. Joe Paradiso, MIT Media Lab https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6005b59a4616fd2204d8fb95/1611091784245-YQUT4IONA2XN1TORKD71/team_Maggie2.png Team Maggie Coblentz, Researcher and Designer https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6005b59a4616fd2204d8fb95/1611091765055-P3AMJQMGN6EKD3I7NQRN/team_Dava.jpg Team Prof. Dava Newman, MIT Media Lab Director https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6005b59a4616fd2204d8fb95/cee1b0cd-5313-4214-a997-1614b6054f58/team_Albert_bw.jpeg Team Albert R. Antosca, Program Manager https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6005b59a4616fd2204d8fb95/1611091783735-0ZSJB14CRTX55YQ0WJN2/team_Maria.jpg Team Prof. Maria Zuber, MIT VP for Research https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6005b59a4616fd2204d8fb95/1611091784727-36M7UNECJKAGDK5EL20K/team_Xin.jpg Team Xin Liu, Arts Curator https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6005b59a4616fd2204d8fb95/1611091783719-Q4VFN45YPZTXYXOWZ4H5/team_Sana.jpg Team Sana Sharma, Staff Designer https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6005b59a4616fd2204d8fb95/1611091784042-99XBFKVZNZ6DQG8DRDMR/team_sands.jpg Team Sands Fish, Staff Designer https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6005b59a4616fd2204d8fb95/626c49a8-1324-4195-89f3-5c7911757691/team_Kate_bw.jpeg Team Kate McCall-Kiley, Space Governance Lead https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6005b59a4616fd2204d8fb95/1631549073051-RRALE4P742526IZEZEY8/team_Noah_bw.jpg Team Noah Feehan, Staff Engineer https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6005b59a4616fd2204d8fb95/1611091765291-3FKGTFH7FUR08YRS0Q8V/team_Jamie.jpg Team Jaime Milliken, Staff Engineer https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6005b59a4616fd2204d8fb95/698c5c97-11d5-4406-a5f6-8daa9237c6e6/Nadia+B%2BW.jpg Team Nadia Khan, Lunar Open Architecture Lead https://www.explore-space.mit.edu/publications daily 0.75 2021-08-13 https://www.explore-space.mit.edu/courses daily 0.75 2021-09-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6005b59a4616fd2204d8fb95/1629995624977-5HKJXGTWGMLXOQ48ID1X/20210520_Steve-Boxall_ZG547-MIT_6636+Copy+3.jpg Courses - Zero Gravity Flight Course: Prototyping Our Sci-Fi Space Future Since 2018, SEI has offered a course on project development, prototyping, and deployment readiness for parabolic flights. This course supports an annually chartered research flight. Admitted student teams are offered project-deployment slots on SEI’s annually chartered parabolic research flight. This course covers three main topic areas: rapid prototyping and engineering skills to prepare projects for operation in microgravity; logistics, training, and safety pre-approval steps to meet flight readiness requirements and pass a Technical Readiness Review (TRR); and creative and technical lenses for the future of space exploration. Learn more about the course → https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6005b59a4616fd2204d8fb95/1629998634215-1VTW05TR0ZM53O1AN0J2/RESOURCE_team_lunar_course_2021.jpeg Courses - Operating in the Lunar Environment New for Spring 2021, Operating in the Lunar Environment is a collaboration between MIT AeroAstro and SEI. This course is a detailed exploration of the design and engineering challenges posed by operating in the lunar environment. Students gain hands-on experience, working in teams, to design a payload to address strategic objectives associated with NASA’s Artemis program, aiming to enable near-term sustainable settlements on the lunar surface. Lectures and associated recitations explore varying mission goals and operating environments, from lunar-class launch, to orbiters, landers, rovers, and habitats. Guest lectures include prominent engineers, scientists, industry players and policymakers, who have direct experience in lunar mission design and development. Learn more about the course → https://www.explore-space.mit.edu/beyond-the-cradle daily 0.75 2021-09-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6005b59a4616fd2204d8fb95/1615993981931-OOC47B567EU05XBI3AOV/image2.jpg Beyond the Cradle Beyond the Cradle takes a creative spin on the future of space exploration. The event brings together leading space industry chief executives, space science researchers, sci-fi authors, Hollywood visionaries, artists, and astronauts to inspire the audience to envision, design, hack, and build our space futures. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6005b59a4616fd2204d8fb95/1630085038942-ZTMZT964G8SPG84LQPI5/001_BTC_V2Puoes.jpg Beyond the Cradle Welcoming attendees to the event, traditionally held on the 6th floor of the MIT Media Lab https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6005b59a4616fd2204d8fb95/1630085192560-I7N6OCKLU55G82M2T526/182_BTC.jpg Beyond the Cradle Beyond the Cradle gathers experts across industries and disciplines to participate in engaging plenary sessions, panels, workshops, and artistic performances on space exploration. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6005b59a4616fd2204d8fb95/1630085169747-R6J4UM5U2K30ECCJK88S/328_BTC.jpg Beyond the Cradle The event’s finale session - the astronaut augury panel https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6005b59a4616fd2204d8fb95/1630085660221-KBF3ACNDUJZ2OFFSKIGL/303_BTC.jpg Beyond the Cradle One of many interactive workshops hosted during the event. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6005b59a4616fd2204d8fb95/1630085704507-Q1DDBK321EIHQ05HC9FC/003_BTC_John%27s_MegaPlanets.jpg Beyond the Cradle A glass planet created by artist Josh Simpson, featured as part of Beyond the Cradle’s space art gallery. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6005b59a4616fd2204d8fb95/1630085770042-HWJAFZU3X3JXGLEJ23MD/013_btc.jpg Beyond the Cradle - Make it stand out The event includes a gallery featuring space art, design, and experimental artifacts. https://www.explore-space.mit.edu/open-source-platforms daily 0.75 2024-08-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6005b59a4616fd2204d8fb95/1630081360474-QK1WPTL0CYLIZFVG4R00/LOA_moon_background.png Open Source Platforms - Lunar Open Architecture Lunar Open Project (LOA) is the first dynamic, living, and open roadmap for lunar exploration, powered by an evolving database that captures and coalesces current and future missions for lunar exploration. By tracking developments around the world in technologies, science, industry, and policy, we hope to cultivate a participatory community to engage in collective decision making to reach shared objectives in lunar exploration. Learn more about Lunar Open Architecture → https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6005b59a4616fd2204d8fb95/1630080919512-747NINYOLA16EUKJPW4L/ZG492_steve-boxall-20190815_0729+copy+2.jpg.1400x1400.jpg Open Source Platforms - Interplanetary Cookbook Food doesn’t just provide nourishment—it opens our imagination, engages our senses (see, smell, taste, touch, sound), and contains cultural heritage. How can we design new and unforeseen food products and systems that extend beyond basic sustenance? An open source collection of recipes and zero-g kitchenware for future life in outer space, the Interplanetary Cookbook promotes the beginning of a food culture that fosters deeper relationships with new worlds. Learn more about the Interplanetary Cookbook → https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6005b59a4616fd2204d8fb95/1630081546671-WBSC1R7QASQDB0GEIFW7/mccandless.jpg Open Source Platforms - Astronaut Ethnography Astronaut Ethnography: Human Perspectives on Life in Space is an online educational resource that aims to democratize insights from spacefaring humans about life in space. This web database presents a curated collection of human perspectives on life in space from a diverse group of astronauts, cosmonauts, and spaceflight participants. As space increasingly opens to more individuals, agencies, and institutions, this resource will contribute human-centered and experiential knowledge to the body of existing foundational research on human health, psychology, and technical innovation. 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