🚀 The ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠FUTURE of SPACE⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ (FoS) video podcast, hosted by ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Daniel Fox⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, is a candid and informal conversation between Fox and leaders, investors, innovators, educators, celebrities, movers and shakers, who are shaping the future of humankind into outer space and here on Earth. Just like how two friends would chat and philosophize together, with one thing missing, a glass of wine! 🚀

Our guest today is Richelle Ellis. Richelle is an expeditionary artist, curator, and analog astronaut. She explores life at all levels of living systems—organisms, social structures, ecosystems, and planetary systems—to illuminate the interdependence and complexity that bind them. Her work examines neural-like networks of connectivity, revealing intricate, interwoven patterns that span disciplines and scales. By visually interpreting these structural relationships, she create narratives that integrate the biological, social, and technological systems that shape our shared existence on Earth. She is the Head of Creative Research for the analog space missions Hawaii Space Exploration Analog and Simulation (HI-SEAS), Sensoria Program, Lunares Research Station, and Astroland Interplanetary Agency. Richelle is the Co-founder of Inploration, a non-profit art and space initiative to deepen community appreciation for our planet by fostering new perspectives. Her work spans exhibitions at the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Venice Biennale, and the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum with recent artworks on the surface of the Moon and adhered to an asteroid.