Ep.4: Romain Charles, Analogue astronaut on Mars500 mission & Astronaut crew support at ESA

 

Romain Charles participated in the longest ever simulated Mars mission, Mars500, an ESA mission in partnership with the Russian Institute for Biomedical Problems (IBMP). Six men spent 520 days in a sealed isolation chamber in a warehouse in Moscow to simulate a human return mission to Mars. Romain is also crew support for ESA astronaut corp, where he coordinates the development of space food, accompanies astronauts into quarantine, and to their launches (and some landings too). But it’s Romain’s wit and keen aptitude for storytelling, that allows us to enter his busy but never boring life. 

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