Journey to the Moon and Beyond
Space base projects are becoming increasingly concrete; Americans, Europeans, Chinese, Russians, and Indians are already preparing to set up exploration bases on the surface and in orbit around the Moon, with the aim of preparing for future missions to Mars. The most advanced of these projects is NASA’s Artemis program, which aims to return humans to the Moon before the end of the decade. For its part, the European Space Agency (ESA) has positioned itself with the future Gateway space station in low lunar orbit. These highly ambitious projects involve new constraints, particularly in terms of the astronauts’ living conditions during these missions.
With the aim of introducing young people to the challenges that lunar explorers will face, CNES and ESA are offering the Mission X and Moon Camp educational projects. With the first, students in grades 1 through 4 will learn about astronauts’ training and daily activities. In the second, primary and secondary school students are invited to build their own space base, taking into account the constraints of the Moon or the celestial body chosen as their host.
AI serving astronauts
In this context, CNES will organize an online conference on Thursday, february 5, 2026, from 2:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. entitled “L’IA au service des astronautes”. This webconference will be given by Denis Baron, Digital and Supervision Manager at CNES’s Spaceship FR, who will present the work carried out by CNES in the field of Artificial Intelligence to provide the best possible support to astronauts during their future manned missions to the Moon or, one day, Mars.
The presentation will take 30 minutes and will be followed by a 10-minute Q&A session. It will be open to students in cycles 3 and 4 and high school. The ZOOM link will be sent to you a few days before the conference once your registration has been confirmed. Some of the questions will be selected before the conference from those submitted on this form.
