For these important tests, the space agencies involved ESA astronaut Luca Parmitano and NASA’s Stanley G. Love. Their extensive experience from previous missions on the International Space Station brought invaluable feedback, helping Thales Alenia Space programme representatives understand how to organise the habitat to support life and operations inside Lunar I-Hab.

A diverse team at Thales Alenia Space, including system engineers, physical configuration and human factor engineers, quality control inspectors, operation and maintenance engineers, health and safety operators, and assembly integration and testing engineers, has been working closely with ESA and NASA representatives.