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"This was out of this world, not just to see the launch but to feel the thunder and roar from the rocket. It will take me a long time to process that," says Daniel Leeb, the director of Iceland Space Agency. He was present when the NASA SLS rocket Artemis I was launched from the Kennedy Space Center of NASA in Cape Canaveral in Florida on November 16th.

"This was out of this world, not just to see the launch but to feel the thunder and roar from the rocket. It will take me a long time to process that," says Daniel Leeb, the director of Iceland Space Agency. He was present when the NASA SLS rocket Artemis I was launched from the Kennedy Space Center of NASA in Cape Canaveral in Florida on November 16th.

Space Café Podcast #68: Daniel Leeb - Iceland's Space Agency as a launching pad towards becoming an interplanetary species

The sediments of the remote Sandvatn lake in Iceland are strikingly similar to those found on mars, according to a NASA scientist conducting research in the area.

Iceland is an increasingly popular testing zone for spacesuits, habitats and off-world vehicles.

The country’s unearthly landscapes have caught the attention of scientists planning for future missions to Mars and the moon.

From everything else. so what we think is that if there are lava tubes on mars, there could be life in there, too. next, daniel is keen to show me another terrestrial analogue a couple of hours drive from the lava tube, and this one is even more extreme. were going under the ice to an environment of very different challenges. we think about the lava tube that we visited earlier — thats a ready—made structure perfect for potential habitat. whereas the analogue were currently in, here in the i...

And thats why over the summer, a group of researchers brought a mock—up spacesuit here to investigate what it might be like to perform extra—terrestrial missions in the future. the suits have a lot of restrictions in terms of how your body can move, what you can actually feel or operate with your fingers. so there are a lot of challenges and restrictions for operating equipment and, as a result, for doing proper field research, so if youre not wearing a suit that is restricting some of those...

Apparel Design Professor Catherine Andreozzi leads fall studio focused on NASA’s upcoming Artemis mission to the moon.

Properly in the field on either the moon or mars. scientists call landscapes which are analogous to other planets �*analogues and daniel leeb and gunnar gudjonsson are hoping to promote iceland to do this kind of research. so they formed a 2—person operation that they are calling the iceland space agency. iceland has some of the most diverse set of terrestrial analogues in close proximity to one another that exist anywhere on the planet. so you could be on mars, then you could drive down the...