What makes WBA Unique?

The WBA is unique because it allows for a truly global study of the impacts, challenges and opportunities of space colonisation, simulating outposts on the Moon and Mars across different habitats simultaneously. This is the first time such an ambitious and expansive simulation will be attempted, making it a groundbreaking project in the realm of space exploration. The vast range of data, diversity of participants and potential for discovering best practices are unparalleled in the WBA. It also provides an opportunity for an unprecedented amount of collaboration and comparison between different analog environments, which could significantly accelerate our understanding of the practical requirements for successful space colonisation.

Potential Customers, Investors and Stakeholders

1. Space Agencies: NASA, ESA  etc. The WBA mission aligns with their goals of lunar and Martian exploration. The data and insights generated by the WBA can directly feed into their planning and preparation processes.
   Benefits: Potential to inform and enhance ongoing and future projects, opportunities for international collaboration, advance the knowledge base required for actual missions and testing of procedures and equipment in a variety of environments.

2. Private Space Companies: SpaceX, Blue Origin, Boeing, Lockheed Martin and others involved in space exploration and colonisation. The WBA mission can help fine-tune technologies, hardware and systems and better understand the human factors involved in long-duration space missions.
   Benefits: Testing and refining technologies in real-world scenarios, opportunity for publicity and the potential to attract future partnerships and contracts.

3. Research Institutions: Opportunities to conduct a vast array of cross disciplinary studies within single or across habitats.
   Benefits: Access to unique, rich and diverse datasets that could fuel a multitude of research projects and papers, spanning a variety of disciplines, multi-disciplinary research opportunities and the potential for worldwide collaborations

4. Pharmaceutical and Biotech Companies: Opportunities to understand the impact of prolonged isolation and stress on human health and the chance to develop or refine treatments for these conditions.

   Benefits: Studying the physiological and psychological impacts of the conditions simulated in the WBA mission, opportunities to test telemedicine technologies and point-of-care diagnostic devices, simulating the remote and resource-limited medical conditions of future lunar and Martian bases.

5. Telecommunications Companies: Opportunity to test communication technologies across multiple, diverse locations, simulating the communication challenges of managing off-world bases.
   Benefits: Opportunity to test technology in diverse and potentially challenging environments, simulating different aspects of communications for lunar or Martian missions. A chance to be the official communications provider for the mission, with associated branding and PR opportunities.

6. Investors: Potential ROI from technologies refined or developed during the mission, influence in a cutting-edge and rapidly growing industry and association with a landmark space mission.

   Benefits: Potential spin-off technologies, or IP generated during the mission, plus prestige and influence in a cutting-edge and increasingly important industry.

7. General Public: Highlight the WBA's role as a stepping stone for future lunar and Martian missions.
   Benefits: Increased awareness and understanding of analog missions, potential inspiration for future scientists and explorers and the opportunity to participate in a landmark project through public engagement initiatives. Media, social platforms and public engagement events can be used to share the excitement and importance of the WBA, making it accessible and relatable. Engage via educational events, interactive activities and public talks. Organise  virtual tours of the analog habitats and regular mission updates.

8. Educational institutions: Unparalleled learning opportunities about space exploration, inspiration for STEM careers. Potential to develop educational packages tied to the mission, which could include curriculum-aligned lesson plans, live virtual talks with scientists and competitions for students to design experiments for the mission.