Students Maria Francisco and Francisco Lucas highlighted the EXPLORE project at the Space Education Summit, in Portugal, by sharing their recent analog astronaut mission experiences. Staffing the busy NUCLIO stand, they engaged with attendees and presented the project to the Secretary of State, Helena Canhão.
While the EXPLORE project initially targeted European countries, we are thrilled to see how it has snowballed beyond Erasmus+ borders!
The winning entry for the EXPLORE Experiment Design Challenge was submitted by the Antalya Art & Science Center (BİLSEM), Türkiye!
The EXPLORE-2 mission has come to an end! For six days, nine young students successfully played the role of analog astronauts in a specially designed habitat to simulate Mars, at the Alqueva Lake Observatory, Monsaraz.
Students from three Portuguese schools are preparing for the next EXPLORE Mission, EXPLORE-2, which will run from 13 to 19 April 2026, in Monsaraz.
On March 14 and 15, high school students from Austria, Greece, and Portugal participated in an intensive training offered by the Austrian Space Forum in preparation for the EXPLORE 2 mission.