Poland’s first and Europe’s second all-female crew has launched an analogue space mission called DEMETER. The crew consists of female students from the AGH University of Science and Technology in Kraków. 

The project is organised by the AGH Space Technology Centre (CTK) and the Analog Astronaut Training Center (AATC). The event is organised under the auspices of the Polish Space Agency.

The crew members are students of AGH University of Science and Technology, studying Biomedical Engineering and Medical Physics, associated in the AstroBio AGH Scientific Club at the AGH Centre for Space Technologies: Magdalena Bator, Wiktoria Foryś, Martyna Garbińska, Wiktoria Tokarczyk, Marta Gajewska and Lidia Dyląg. The participants of the 7-day mission are already in the habitat and are starting experiments.

According to AGH, the space mission simulation will focus on experiments related to food production in isolated systems, optimisation of water consumption and analysis of group dynamics and psycho-physiological aspects of women.