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ANTARISHQ Research
Forging the crews of tomorrow.
Astronaut analog programs, mission-ops academies, and orbital certifications — building the human capital for a solar-system economy.
Our mission
To train the millions of engineers, operators, medics, and analog astronauts a spacefaring civilization requires — not the thousands the current pipeline produces.
HI-SEAS (Hawaii), CHAPEA (Johnson Space Center), MDRS (Utah), and Concordia (Antarctica) simulate long-duration crewed missions. NASA's 2023 CHAPEA-1 crew lived in a 3D-printed Mars habitat for 378 days. ANTARISHQ partners with analog programs to open the pipeline beyond national astronaut corps.
The US Space Force, commercial launch, and satellite industries collectively project a shortage of ~90,000 skilled workers by 2030 (Aerospace Industries Association). Bottlenecks are concentrated in propulsion engineering, cryogenics, radiation shielding, and mission operations — trades that require years to certify.
IAASS, IAF, and the FAA Office of Commercial Space Transportation are drafting the equivalent of pilot ratings for commercial astronauts and orbital operators. Our academy program builds curricula against these emerging standards so a graduate is credentialed on day one.
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