Season 2 Episode 03
Analog Astronauts
Thousands of ordinary people all over the world have taken part in something called an analog mission. Think of it like a dry run on earth for future space missions. Scientists, researches, and really all kinds of folks, have lived and worked in an isolated, extreme environment on Earth, like a desert, an Arctic island, or a sealed habitat, or at least one known case, their parent’s backyard — to simulate what it would be like to live in space or on another planet.
Stuart Barefoot
Small League Productions
Matt Medeiros
Gravity Forms
Get your free tshirt at crewcollectivepodcast.com
Thousands of ordinary people all over the world have taken part in something called an analog mission. Think of it like a dry run on earth for future space missions. Scientists, researches, and really all kinds of folks, have lived and worked in an isolated, extreme environment on Earth, like a desert, an Arctic island, or a sealed habitat, or at least one known case, their parent’s backyard — to simulate what it would be like to live in space or on another planet.
Host and producer Stuart Barefoot spoke with two analog astronauts about their journeys here on Earth.
The Analog Astronauts:
Jas Purewal – The World’s Biggest Analog
Ben Corbin – Rime of the Modern Mariner
Sources and Links
Solomon, S. E. (2026). Becoming Martian: How living in space will change our bodies and minds (S. Kelly, Foreword). MIT Press.
AZPM. (2016, July 1). From the vault: Biosphere 2 construction 1989 [Video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jmPbTLQAfs
About the Show
Original music for this series is written and record by Doug Hoyer
[additional tracks come from Blue Dot Sessions, and Storyblocks ]
More episodes can be found at crewcollectivepodcast.com
Support the show by getting some our new merch
Executive Producers: Matt Medeiros, Carl Hancock and Travis Totz
Graphic and web design by Melissa Jelich-Stohmaier
This episode was written, researched, edited, produced and narrated by Stuart Barefoot
