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Aspiring Martians is the podcast for those captivated by the vision of living on Mars. Each episode unpacks the realities of Martian exploration, blending hard science with the personal stories of those preparing to embark on humanity’s most ambitious journey. From scientists to dreamers, pioneers to future settlers, we bring you the voices shaping what life could be like on Mars. Whether you’re an aspiring Martian yourself or just curious about the journey, join us as we navigate the incredible risks, rewards, and realities of life beyond Earth.
Unknown Host hosts Aspiring Martians, a society show with 86 episodes published.
What kind of person do we actually need to send to Mars? Someone technically brilliant, certainly. But future Martian crews will also need people capable of communicating through frustration, relinquishing control when s
What can Antarctica teach us about Mars? This week on Aspiring Martians , I sit down with biologist, data scientist, educator, and Mars analog astronaut Pacifica Sommers to explore how some of Earth’s most extreme enviro
In this month’s Inside the Habitat , I traveled to NASA’s Johnson Space Center to explore the agency’s human exploration analogs. From the year-long Mars missions of CHAPEA, to the behavioral research of HERA, and beyond
Human beings have created art for tens of thousands of years. From prehistoric cave paintings to Renaissance masterpieces, photography, music, sculpture, and now even paintings created aboard the International Space Stat
What does it look like to pursue multiple impossible dreams at the same time? For Dr. Banu Cole , it means leading cutting-edge cancer research during the week, flying helicopters, editing one of the world’s first journa
What happens when the traditional path to becoming an astronaut closes before you even get the chance to prove yourself? For Dr. Dirk Raiser, it meant finding another way forward. Dirk is a German experimental physicist,
This month on Inside the Habitat, we’re traveling to northeastern Brazil to explore Habitat Marte, the Southern Hemisphere’s only continuously operating Mars analog station. Founded by professor, researcher, and analog a
Imagine we've landed on Mars, set up shop, and are absolutely thriving. Now what? It’s a question that rarely gets asked. We spend countless hours talking about rockets, habitats, food production, and surviving the journ
In this special bonus episode of Aspiring Martians , I caught up with NASA astronaut Dr. Anil Menon just weeks before his first journey to space aboard Soyuz MS-29 , where he’ll spend roughly eight months aboard the Inte
Most people imagine a straight line into the space industry. Mason Robbins’ story is anything but. After beginning his career in international relations and conflict studies, Mason worked with organizations including the
What does it take to pursue a dream that feels bigger than the world around you? This week, Joe sits down with Hajar Azizi, a 20-year-old engineering student at École Centrale Casablanca and an active member of the Moroc
What does it take to build a space community where one barely exists? This week, I sit down with Ismail El Omari, a Moroccan space architect, analog astronaut, educator, and founder of the Moroccan Association for Space
For this month’s Inside the Habitat, we’re heading to the slopes of Mauna Loa in Hawaii to explore one of the most iconic analog habitats on Earth: HI-SEAS. For more than a decade, HI-SEAS has helped researchers study wh
This month’s special Everyday Mars episode heads into the alternate-history universe of For All Mankind with former NASA astronaut, SpaceX engineer, and series technical advisor Garrett Reisman. If you somehow haven’t st
For the 50th aspiring Martian feature, Joe sits down with Hanna Harutyunyan: robotics and mechatronics engineering student, researcher, and analog astronaut widely recognized as Armenia’s first analog astronaut. Hanna ha
This week on Aspiring Martians, I’m joined by Arshleen Kaur Sahni, a space architect, researcher, analog astronaut trainee, and the founder of Arkasa. As a child in India, Arshleen would spend hours staring at the Moon f
What does it actually take to simulate life on the Moon… inside a Swiss mountain? In this month’s Inside the Habitat, we go deep into the Asclepios Project, a student-led analog mission program designed to prepare the ne
What happens to the Overview Effect when Earth is no longer the center of your universe? In this special Everyday Mars episode, Joe sits down with Frank White, the visionary behind The Overview Effect, to explore how one
From Mars simulations… to mission control. This week on Aspiring Martians, Joe is joined by Cassandra Klos, a photographer, curator, and analog astronaut whose work lives at the intersection of art, science, and the futu
What does it look like to prepare for Mars… from a place the space industry often overlooks? In this episode of Aspiring Martians, I sit down with Isaac Macharia Gathu, founder and president of Mars Society Kenya, to tal
Ben Bailey
Psychologist and student of Nonviolent Communication (NVC) · Abilene City Council
1 appearance on this show
Alyssa Carson
science communicator, astrobiologist · The Mars Generation
1 appearance on this show
Scott Solomon
author of Becoming Martian · Northside Hospital
1 appearance on this show
Ismail El Omari
Moroccan Association for Space Studies
1 appearance on this show
Dr. Kim Binsted
HI-SEAS
1 appearance on this show
Arshleen Kaur Sahni
Arkasa
1 appearance on this show
Isaac Macharia Gathu
Mars Society Kenya
1 appearance on this show
Salam Abualhayjaa
MENA
1 appearance on this show
Benedetta Facini
Titans Space Industries
1 appearance on this show
Dr. Leszek Orzechowski
LunAres Research Station
1 appearance on this show
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