Kai Staats

Kai Staats
Central Namibia game preserve, 2015
Born (1970-07-16) July 16, 1970 (age 54)
Spearfish, South Dakota
NationalityAmerican
Websitewww.kaistaats.com

Kai Kruse Staats is an entrepreneur, scientist, and filmmaker.[1] He is the director of research for SAM at Biosphere 2 and oversaw the habitat's design and construction.[2] Staats and his colleagues developed and built SAM as a hermetically sealed and pressurized research station and habitat analog for experiments related to living and working on the Moon and Mars.[3]

At the Arizona State University School of Earth & Space Exploration, he contributed to the design of off-world human habitats as project lead for an Interplanetary Initiative Pilot Project called SIMOC,[4][5] a research-grade computer simulation and instructional interface to a Mars habitat that is hosted by National Geographic.[6]

His last film series, funded in part by the NSF, chronicled the first direct detection of gravitational waves in 2015 by LIGO, where he served as a visiting scientist.[7][8][9][10]

Staats's work includes that done on iConji and Yellow Dog Linux.[11]

  1. ^ "'LIGO: A Passion for Understanding' — The Minds Behind the Film". Space.com. 2014-04-16. Retrieved 2024-03-19.
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  3. ^ "Crew completes simulated mission to outer space in a pressurized habitat at Biosphere 2". ABC15 Arizona in Phoenix (KNXV). 2023-05-10. Retrieved 2024-03-19.
  4. ^ "What balance of mechanical and biological systems will be required to sustain human life in a growing, off-world habitat? | Interplanetary Initiative". interplanetary.asu.edu. Retrieved 2019-01-23.[permanent dead link]
  5. ^ SIMOC Interplanetary Initiative ASU, 23 September 2019, retrieved 2019-10-23
  6. ^ "ASU Interplanetary Initiative - SIMOC Pilot Project". Over the Sun. Retrieved 2024-03-01.
  7. ^ "LIGO, A Passion for Understanding". LIGO Multimedia Library.
  8. ^ "LIGO Generations". LIGO Multimedia Library.
  9. ^ "LIGO Detection". New Scientist. Retrieved 2019-01-18.
  10. ^ "LIGO Scientific Collaboration Directory". roster.ligo.org. Retrieved 26 January 2019.
  11. ^ Kaplan, Jeremy (27 March 2015). "Inventor Proposes New Language for Cell Phone Messaging -- Using Hieroglyphics". Fox News.