Anastasia Stepanova is a space journalist, research engineer, PhD candidate in Space Resources at the Colorado School of Mines and co-author of the space book "I wish you a good flight." She has participated as a mission specialist and crew journalist in numerous experiments and projects aimed at better understanding the effects of space travel on the human body, as well as simulating the conditions of a crewed expedition to the moon and Mars.
As the first female test subject in the world in the "Dry Immersion" experiment, organized by the Institute of Biomedical Problems of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Anastasia helped to advance understanding of the female body's adaptive reactions to gravity unloading. Anastasia was a mission specialist in the SIRIUS19 experiment, organized by the Institute of Biomedical Problems and the NASA Human Research Program. This project simulated the conditions of an expedition to the moon with isolation of the international crew in a ground-based experimental space station for 120 days.
