Give me space to dream | Anastasia Stepanova | TEDxPokrovkaStStudio

Space is the last frontier of humanity and a big dream. How are researchers preparing to go where no human has been before? Why would a person want to fly into space? Anastasia Stepanova is an engineer at Institute of Biomedical Problems of Russian Academy of Sciences. Space journalist, co-author of the book “I wish you a good flight“. Rescuer (volunteer) of the public search and rescue squad “SpasReserv“. Ambassador of the charity project Unity. Drawing and helping to send children’s dreams to space. Test subject in first in the world female dry immersion (simulation of microgravity) experiment at Institute of biomedical problems. Mission specialist in international isolation (120 days) experiment SIRIUS19 (IBMP - NASA). Health and safety officer, crew journalist in international project “Mars160” (Mars Society): 80 days at the Mars Desert Research Station in Utah (USA); 30 days at Flashline Mars Arctic Research Station on the uninhabited Devon island (Arctic, Canada). This talk was given at a TEDx event