// Support the Research
This framework needs to grow.
We built a working model of human survival in space using public data. The next step is original research, proprietary modeling, and institutional partnerships that push it past what published literature alone can do.
// 01 / What exists today
The foundation is in place.
The framework currently models twelve interconnected subsystems across food, water, air, body, psychology, and operations. It includes three interactive simulators, a 60-term glossary, a live ISS tracker, and deep-dive pages on each system. Every number has been fact-checked against NASA publications and peer-reviewed research across three audit passes.
This is functional. It works. People can run scenarios right now. But it's built on other people's published data, and that limits how far it can go.
// 02 / Where it's going
The next phase requires original research.
Published research gives you individual data points. What doesn't exist anywhere is the integrated model that connects them. The cascade rates between systems, the compound effects of simultaneous stressors, the population-scale dynamics above Dunbar's number. That modeling has to be built from scratch, and it requires resources beyond what public data can provide.
Research
Original cascade modeling
Building validated system-to-system propagation rates from analog study data, ISS incident reports, and controlled simulation.
Research
Proprietary datasets
Structured datasets that don't exist yet: cross-system failure correlations, compound stressor effects, population-scale psychology modeling.
Infrastructure
Analog study partnerships
Working with Antarctic stations, submarine programs, and isolation habitat teams to validate the model against real confined-environment data.
Infrastructure
Educational licensing
Making the scenario engine available to STEM programs, aerospace courses, and space training facilities as a teaching tool.
// 03 / How to be involved
This is an open invitation.
For researchers
Contribute or collaborate
Review the methodology, suggest improvements, contribute data, or co-author analysis on one of the twelve open problems. The framework is designed to improve with scrutiny.
For institutions
Partner with us
Space agencies, universities, analog programs, and aerospace companies working on human factors. If the framework is useful to your work, there's a partnership that makes sense.
For funders
Fund the next phase
Grant funding, institutional sponsorship, or foundation support for original modeling, proprietary datasets, and analog study partnerships. This is research infrastructure, not a content project.
For everyone
Use it, test it, share it
Run scenarios. Flag anything that looks wrong. Share the framework with people who should see it. The more people stress-test it, the better it gets.
// Get in touch
If any of the above is relevant to you, get in touch. We respond to every inquiry from researchers, institutions, and potential partners.