Welcome to Analog Mission at AATC¶

Thank you for expressing your interest and submitting your participation in the AATC Analog Habitat Mission! We are excited about the opportunity to meet you and collaborate on the development of future human spaceflights and projects in space sciences.

What will happen now?¶

After paying the registration fee, your spot on the mission is secured. Congratulations you can plan your trip (buy plane tickets, book hotel for a day before/after, etc.)

We will contact you 28 days before the mission and invite you to the introductory webinar, where all the preparation details will be mentioned. During the next few days, you will be asked to submit your bio, photo, and experiment details. If you don't have your own experiment, we will assign you to one of ours.

Here, you will learn more about the habitat, experiments, and participate in team-building exercises. Soon after, we will depart for the habitat, which is approximately 90 minutes away from AATC's office. In the habitat, you will be introduced to scientific equipment and all the safety protocols. You will be assigned a role during the mission. This is the last moment before the mission. You will sleep that night in the habitat. Your mission will start on the very next day as soon as you and your team wake up.

After the mission, you will return to the AATC office in Cracow at 15:00 (Europe/Warsaw time).

For the next few days, we will work with you to analyze the data. After two weeks, we will have a mission conclusion webinar with a presentation of the results.

What can you do before the mission?¶

Please familiarize yourself with our website, where you will find:

• Details about the 7-day mission you have enrolled in link
• Mission goals and benefits of participation
• List of AATC scientific publications link

What can you do after the mission?¶

Using the opportunity that you have already traveled to AATC, you might be interested in more activities such as SCUBA diving, Human Centrifuge, or Stratospheric missions.

Please familiarize yourself with the pages below:

• Scuba Diving Introduction
• Scuba Diving Certification
• Human Centrifuge
• Aerospace Engineering Workshop
• Stratosphere Balloon

Both the Scuba Diving Introduction and Certification options are popular.

Before You Buy Flight Tickets¶

The mission price does not include traveling to/from Cracow, Poland, from/to your respective living location. You are also responsible for getting to/from the airport or a train station to our office on your own. Although this is a 5 EUR Uber ride or a 1 EUR direct bus ticket (no transfers).

We discourage regular taxis and other means of transportation. Note that Uber is reasonably cheap in Poland and it is the easiest and fastest way of transportation to/from the city or airport, especially if you are in a hurry for your flight. Make sure you have an active Uber account and a valid payment method attached to your account.

Location¶

AATC office address is:

• Address: Koło Strzelnicy 8A, Kraków, Poland
• Coordinates: 50.06368° N, 19.87920° E
• Show location in Google Maps
• Show location in Apple Maps

Payment¶

The total mission cost is 650 EUR, and we take two installments:

• 250 EUR - registration-fee - Paid upon registration
• 400 EUR - full-payment - Paid 14 days before the mission

Your mission spot is not guaranteed until we receive the registration fee!

Please note that the 250 EUR registration fee is non-refundable due to the cost of consumables and other materials (suit, logo, embroidery) that we need to invest in order for the mission to happen. In case of a no-show, we won't be able to use it for anyone else.

Contact Us¶

If you have questions, please send them via email to: info@astronaut.center