About me
Rodrigo Carvalho Santiago has been selected by IIAS to join the Astronaut Scientist Candidate Class of 2018. He reported for duty in 2019 for AST 101. A native of Volta Redonda- RJ – Brazil he has performed two high attitude flights in space environment conditions with the need for an IVA suit.
He was a researcher and advisor for the MIT / T.E.S.S (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite) DATA ANALYSIS TESS GI Program lead by Padi Boyd at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center.
During quarantine he was part of the Folding at Home team creating the infrastructure to create a supercomputer through peer-to-peer networking. In March 2020, the network had a more powerful processing volume and speed than the world’s top 7 supercomputers combined.
Rodrigo also joined a team to provide solutions for NASA Human Landing System project for the new generation of toilets in lunar, martian and orbital environments.
He is director of NMMS 1 (National Manned Stratosphere Station Program). The project involves the construction and operation of the NMSS-1 (National Manned Stratosphere Station), which can accommodate 6 to 8 crew members. The station will carry out research and experiments near the lower mesosphere for up to 8 days at the edge of space.
He was one of the chosen by UNITY for the development of applications for META QUEST 2 focused essentially on photo realistic simulations of Space, Lunar and Martian missions, where through his long experience as analog astronaut he can contribute to the reduction of errors in long distance missions.