Price: $1,250 per registrant
Experience: Friday, September 11, 8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Networking Reception & Dinner with an Astronaut: 5:00 – 8:00 p.m.
Space Center Houston members receive 10% off registration!
Astronaut candidates are selected for their potential, then it’s NASA’s job to make them ready for spaceflight. Will you challenge yourself to think, decide, and perform like NASA astronauts and mission leaders who are trained to navigate the unknown, stay grounded in uncertainty, and execute with precision when it matters most?
Join Space Center Houston’s Human Performance Accelerator Lab Team for a full day of immersive experiences, where you’ll:
- Build Unshakeable Resilience & Decision-Making Under Pressure | Develop the mental toughness, clarity, and confidence to make high-stakes decisions when conditions are uncertain, time is compressed, and the margin for error is razor thin.
- Create an Agile, Adaptive Team Culture | Learn how astronauts pivot in real time when missions don’t go as planned, and how to embed that same fluid adaptability into your team’s DNA.
- Activate Your In-the-Moment Creativity & Imagination | Strengthen your ability to think on your feet, reframe challenges, and unlock innovative solutions when the playbook no longer applies.
- Test Your Limits as an Explorer | Push your boundaries in immersive Water Survival Training featuring HUET (Helicopter Underwater Egress Training), where composure, critical thinking, and survival instincts are put to the ultimate test, revealing who you are when it matters most.
- Be Inspired at the Edge of Human Exploration | Depending on availability, step inside the facility of NASA’s legendary Neutral Buoyancy Lab where most astronauts who have walked in space have trained, and experience firsthand what it means to prepare for the impossible.
This one-day experience includes:
- Meet and hear stories from NASA astronauts (Mike Foreman and potentially Megan McArthur)
- Aerospace expert guest speakers (Ginger Kerrick)
- Exclusive Tour of a real NASA facility, the Neutral Buoyancy Lab (depending on availability)
- Water Survival Training featuring HUET (Helicopter Underwater Egress Training)
- Personal roadmap strategy creation
- Network with aerospace experts during a cocktail reception inside the original NASA 905 shuttle carrier aircraft and shuttle replica Independence
- Onsite lunch at water survival training
- Dinner provided by Wolfgang Puck Catering
- Coffee and snacks all day
- HPALab certificate and patch
Learn more about Space Center Houston’s Human Performance Accelerator Lab (HPALab).
