Celestial Citizen Expeditions...in Iceland!
Watch part 1 of our new series and follow the adventures of an analog astronaut in Iceland!
Hello Celestial Citizens,
I’m excited to announce our newest series…Celestial Expeditions! And our first expedition takes us all the way to Iceland.
So what can Iceland teach us about space? Analog astronaut and aerospace engineer, Bailey Burns, finds out as she travels to Húsavík in this first episode of our Celestial Citizen Expeditions series.
Last December, Bailey went to the Explorers Festival held in Húsavík, Iceland. Organized by Space Iceland, the festival features a series of talks from explorers and scientists, as well as field research and excursions that allow participants to experience Iceland's unique landscapes. Follow along as Bailey explores Iceland for the first time and visits some of the same spots where NASA astronauts trained for their Apollo missions.
We hope you enjoy part one of this special three-part series and enjoy learning more about Iceland’s Apollo space heritage!
And if you can’t get enough Iceland-related space content, then check out this great article from NPR about how the country is promoting its unique Martian and lunar analog environments for tourism.
Meet Bailey Burns
Bailey Burns is an Aerospace Engineer at Paragon Space working on life support for the future of humans in space. She is also a recent graduate of the Space Resources master’s program at the Colorado School of Mines. While there, her focus was on lunar regolith and dust mitigation on the lunar surface. Bailey has also participated in HI-SEAS as an analog astronaut studying lava tubes in a two-week simulated moon base mission, complete with lots of dehydrated food. Bailey hopes to use her platform to show everyone can bring their own skillset to the new space age, and have fun while doing it, which she does as an official Rubik’s cube ambassador.
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Don’t be afraid to take up space,
Britt
CEO of Celestial Citizen & Creator of Continuum