12-30, 13:30–14:00 (Europe/Berlin), CDC Mini Stage
Offworld.Voyage is an astronaut training project focused on the design and development of self-contained ecologically sustainable all-vegan research facilities - intended for use in live immersive simulation missions that solve for interplanetary exploration as well as adaptation to the extremes of a rapidly changing biosphere on Earth.
M.A.R.S. Tesseract-1 is an astronaut training facility being developed by Offworld.Voyage, designed for use in Mars surface analog simulations - consisting of modular interconnected living structures including an enclosed green-hab science lab, fab lab and flow space.
Research activities will include:
• EVAs utilizing sim-spacesuits embedded with biosensors
• On site cultivation of nutrient dense foods
• Experiments in development of open source decentralized communications and coordination tools and protocols
• Mission Support / Mission Control training
• Geological analysis and mapping
• Off-grid and autonomous power production
• Exercises in extreme reduction of resource consumption
• Coordinated decision making and collective action
• Water purification and re-use
• Composting and re-processing of organic waste
• Creative on-site repair and recycling of all materials
The inaugural mission is currently scheduled to occur in an isolated and remote desert location in late 2025.
The project is co-founded by Mars Desert Research Station alumni Scott Beibin and Elizabeth Jane Cole.
Scott Beibin is an inventor, self-taught engineer, science-artist, creator of open source liberation eco-technologies and community builder within the sciences, arts and activist movements. He is driven by a thirst for knowledge and enthralled by multiple domains of rational thought and scientific exploration. He believes in making discovery and learning fun and accessible for all.
Scott is a founder of Offworld Voyage and co-designer of the M.A.R.S. Tesseract-1 research facility - both designed to simultaneously promote space exploration and protection of the environment on Earth. He is an alumni of the Mars Desert Research Station and a co-founder of The Journal for Space Analog Research (a project of The Mars Society).
He has created and launched many projects including Mandelbot Ecotech, Music on Mars, Groucho Fractal, AncientScan, Ptelepathetique, Evil Twin Booking Agency, Lost Film Fest, Bloodlink Records and others. He is a vegan since 1990 and a social/environmental activist.