{"id":138792,"date":"2025-10-22T17:59:28","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T17:59:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/138792\/"},"modified":"2025-10-22T17:59:28","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T17:59:28","slug":"media-lab-alum-dan-novy-participates-in-analog-astronaut-mission-mit-media-lab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/138792\/","title":{"rendered":"Media Lab alum Dan Novy participates in analog astronaut mission \u2014 MIT Media Lab"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Dan Novy<\/b>, an alum of the Media Lab&#8217;s Object-Based Media group and current\u00a0professor at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln\u2019s Johnny Carson Center for Emerging Media Arts, has been selected to participate as a communications officer in an upcoming analog astronaut mission. This mission is in conjunction with\u00a0the Armenian Space Forum at the Mars Analog Research Station in\u00a0Armash, Armenia.<\/p>\n<p>The station is one of the flagship independent habitats for the World\u2019s Biggest Analog (WBA) initiative.\u00a0This proof-of-concept mission is bringing together 16 habitats across four continents to run simulated Lunar and Martian missions, united by a central Mission Control run by MICO-VIE, which is hosted by the Austrian Space Forum.<\/p>\n<p>To help other aspiring astronauts run their own simulated space missions, Professor Novy has also created <a href=\"https:\/\/novysan.github.io\/worlds-biggest-analog-minecraft-mod\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">an educational Minecraft modpack<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dan Novy, an alum of the Media Lab&#8217;s Object-Based Media group and current\u00a0professor at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":138793,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[77],"tags":[82187,18,19,17,133,451],"class_list":{"0":"post-138792","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-science","8":"tag-alumni","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-science","13":"tag-space"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138792\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/138793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}