Patch design: Asclepios Team
Asclepios III
Asclepios III, our third analogue mission, was set in a Lunar South Pole environment. A crew of international analogue astronauts were placed in isolation and carried out experiments and EVAs to explore the challenges of space medicine. The mission itself took place at Sasso San Gottardo, Switzerland.
The Eagle Crew
This Asclepios III-crew was composed of the ten analog astronauts. The crew performed an analogue space mission in all its components: training and thorough preparation; maintain and perform repairs of their base if needed; conduct scientific experiments and communicate with the ground team of the MCC as would a regular astronaut crew. The astronauts have been drafted from students all around the globe whose level of study ranges from bachelor to PhD.
patch design: Chanud Sithipreedanant
Max von Horstig
PhD in battery process engineering
Nationality: German
Age: 28
Role: Base Engineer
Rebecca Blum
BCs in Cellular and Molecular Biology at Brown University
Nationality: American
Age: 20
Role: Medical Officer
Luke Cullen
PhD in AI for Environmental Risks at University of Cambridge
Nationality: British
Age: 26
Role: Commander
Pietro Innocenzi
PhD in High Speed Aerodynamics at Imperial College London
Nationality: Italian
Age: 24
Role: Science Specialist
Núria Moreira
5th year Medical Student at ICBAS – University of Porto
Nationality: Portuguese
Age: 22
Role: CapCom
Samuel Darmon
BCs in Mechanical Engineering at EPFL
Nationality: Swiss
Age: 23
Role: Medical Officer
Marion Dugué
joint-MSc in Applied Geophysics, TU Delft and ETH Zurich
Nationality: French
Age: 22
Role: CapCom
Baptiste Rubino-Moyner
Master SpacE Exploration and Development Systems (SEEDS)
Nationality: French
Age: 24
Role: Communication Officer
Rocio Valera-Falla
Integrated Master student in Aerospace Engineering at University of Nottingham
Nationality: Spanish
Age: 22
Role: CapCom
Palak Patel
PhD in Mechanical Engineering at MIT
Nationality: American
Age: 25
Role: CapCom
Our Teams
Project Leaders
Loïc Lervilee-Rouyer & Elena Contreras
The project leaders are the chief executives for the mission. They mentour, coordinate and support all the Heads with their teams’ activities.
Astronaut Team
Team Head: Emma Chehab
The Astronaut Team includes our Asclepios analog astronauts as well as our astronaut trainers. This team is responsible for preparing the astronauts for their mission to the Moon.
Science Team
Team Head: Chiara Armandi e Arnault Monoyer
The Science team interfaces between Asclepios and our scientific collaborators. Each year, the Science team puts out a Call for Projects to solicit proposals from academia and industry for projects to test in the Asclepios mission. Science team members collaborate with Principal Investigators throughout the year to implement their experiments in the mission. The Science team also plans and implements their own experiments..
Communication Team
Team Head: Sakhaa AlMadani
The Communications Team shares our work at Asclepios with the rest of the world! This team is responsible for managing the Asclepios social media and website, as well as designing team merchandise and mission and team patches.
Design Team
Team Head: Diego González
The Design Team manages the internal design of our analog lunar base. They work on the base layout, airlock design, spacesuit design and maintenance, and the launch simulation, along with other projects.
Management Team
Team Head: Veronica Orlandi
The Management Team overlooks everything that ensures smooth functioning of the association, including finance, logistics, and legal departments. They work on the mission budget, partners’ agreements and general logistics for the mission.
Asclepios III Sponsors
Our Missions
Asclepios V
After four successful missions, Asclepios is launching its fifth mission. Nine analog astronauts from around the world have been selected to become the Iris crew and will spend up to sixteen days in isolation in the Sasso San Gottardo fortress. The mission will begin in July 2025, ready for lift off!
Asclepios IV
The analog mission Asclepios IV, launched in Summer 2024, was a lunar base simulation. The astronauts were students that went through extensive training to master the successful execution of the selected projects and experiments. Upon successful completion of the trainings, six astronauts spent two weeks isolated inside a simulated lunar base, in Switzerland, and took part in extravehicular activities (EVAs).
Asclepios II
Asclepios II, our second analogue mission, was set in a Lunar South Pole environement. A crew of six international analogue astronauts were placed in isolation while they carry out experiments and EVAs to explore the challenges in the search for water. The mission took place at Sasso San Gottardo, a Swiss world war era fortress in the Airolo municipality of Switzerland.
Asclepios I
As the first mission of the Asclepios project, Asclepios I layd the foundation on which the following missions will be built. It served to accomplish the project’s goals as it demonstrated the viability of student led analogue missions. This mission served the purpose of testing the structure chosen for an Asclepios analogue mission but also the project structure itself. It was also oriented towards an ecological and sustainable approach. This was underlined by multiple choices ranging from alimentation to the construction of base structures.