Analog Astronaut Training Center¶

Analog Astronaut Training Center (AATC) is a human spaceflight training and bioastronautics research organization. We offer a variety of programs for astronaut candidates, scientists, engineers, and space enthusiasts. AATC was founded by former European Space Agency professionals.

We believe that anyone, regardless of nationality, race, ethnicity, belief, or gender, can be trained to make a meaningful contribution to human space exploration.

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AATC has two full-isolation research laboratories (habitats) and an analog astronaut training program with international internship certification. As of March 2026, there was 105 analog missions, 1 large-scale analog colony (31 participants), 37 peer-reviewed publications, 145 conference proceedings, 4 PhD researches, 15 MS studies, 46 BS studies. AATC specializes in human physiology research and operational trainings for scientists, engineers, and astronaut candidates. AATC is founded by two former European Space Agency professionals: an engineer (Matt Harasymczuk) and a scientist (Agata Harasymczuk).

Both research facilities are located in the south-eastern part of Poland. Besides scientific projects, co-supervision of engineer, bachelor, masters and doctoral theses, AATC organizes rocket workshops, stratospheric missions, recreational and technical scuba diving trainings, and scientific Lunar and Martian analog simulations. The organization owns 4 training space suits: 2 LEM (Lunar Extravehicular Mobility suit) for surface exploration, two underwater visor-up training suits, and one underwater pressurized NBL visor-down suit Wydra (english: Otter). Analog Astronaut Training Center together with the International Institute of Astronautical Sciences, also organizes two EVA pre-familiarization trainings in the Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory in Groton, CT, USA

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Events in 2026¶

Activities for 2027 will be announced on December 1st, 2016.

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