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Inside The World's Biggest Analog with Jas Purewal
Inside the Habitat is a brand new series from Aspiring Martians that takes listeners behind the scenes of the analog simulations shaping humanity’s future on the Moon, Mars, and beyond. On the first Tuesday of every month, we will explore the many habitats scattered across deserts, cities, oceans, and even aircraft where we are testing the limits of human psychology, teamwork, and technology before attempting real off-world settlement.
To kick off the series, Joe starts big with the World’s Biggest Analog, a first-of-its-kind global simulation that connected 16 habitats across 16 countries in a shared Mars mission. Rather than isolating one crew in one location, this ambitious project explored what planetary-scale collaboration might look like for future settlements.
Joe is joined by Jas Purewal, Senior Scientist and the founder and Director of the World’s Biggest Analog, a role she somehow balances alongside her many others. Jas is also the co-founder and Director of the Analog Astronaut Community which brings together analog astronauts and researchers from around the world and will host its 5th Analog Astronaut Conference from April 30 to May 3, 2026, at Biosphere 2.
In this conversation, we explore how the World’s Biggest Analog came together, what it revealed about global cooperation, and why analog missions are critical rehearsals for humanity’s next giant leap.
Links:
https://www.worldsbiggestanalog.com/
https://www.analog-astronaut.com/
The opportunity to integrate the International Guidelinesand Standards for Analogs during the World’s Biggest Analog was made possible through the generous support of J Trent Adams.
A huge thank you as well to Jas Purewal for joining me today and sharing her time to talk about the World’s Biggest Analog, to Nick Thorburn for the stellar theme music, to Ceci Gigliofor the incredible graphics, to Jero Squartini for the amazing animations, to RDan, Leila, Inka, and Carl for admining the FB group, and to my family for even entertaining the idea that our daughters totally wouldn’t mind the 2 hourcommute to a Mars magnet school.
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By Aspiring MartiansInside the Habitat is a brand new series from Aspiring Martians that takes listeners behind the scenes of the analog simulations shaping humanity’s future on the Moon, Mars, and beyond. On the first Tuesday of every month, we will explore the many habitats scattered across deserts, cities, oceans, and even aircraft where we are testing the limits of human psychology, teamwork, and technology before attempting real off-world settlement.
To kick off the series, Joe starts big with the World’s Biggest Analog, a first-of-its-kind global simulation that connected 16 habitats across 16 countries in a shared Mars mission. Rather than isolating one crew in one location, this ambitious project explored what planetary-scale collaboration might look like for future settlements.
Joe is joined by Jas Purewal, Senior Scientist and the founder and Director of the World’s Biggest Analog, a role she somehow balances alongside her many others. Jas is also the co-founder and Director of the Analog Astronaut Community which brings together analog astronauts and researchers from around the world and will host its 5th Analog Astronaut Conference from April 30 to May 3, 2026, at Biosphere 2.
In this conversation, we explore how the World’s Biggest Analog came together, what it revealed about global cooperation, and why analog missions are critical rehearsals for humanity’s next giant leap.
Links:
https://www.worldsbiggestanalog.com/
https://www.analog-astronaut.com/
The opportunity to integrate the International Guidelinesand Standards for Analogs during the World’s Biggest Analog was made possible through the generous support of J Trent Adams.
A huge thank you as well to Jas Purewal for joining me today and sharing her time to talk about the World’s Biggest Analog, to Nick Thorburn for the stellar theme music, to Ceci Gigliofor the incredible graphics, to Jero Squartini for the amazing animations, to RDan, Leila, Inka, and Carl for admining the FB group, and to my family for even entertaining the idea that our daughters totally wouldn’t mind the 2 hourcommute to a Mars magnet school.