Jeremy Saget

Biography

Qualified in aerospace medicine, Jeremy Saget is a parabolic flight surgeon and carries out helicopter rescue missions in difficult zones for the United Nations. He is also an instructor for weightlessness discovery flights, and a flight surgeon aboard the Airbus A310 ZeroG for space agencies’ microgravity research campaigns. He also holds a master’s degree in cognitive science (specializing in human factors), and teaches this discipline to future airline pilots. He is particularly interested in the issues surrounding manned missions to Mars. He is a regular speaker on the subject of social psychology in isolated missions, confined to extreme environments and the challenges of the space experience for all.

Conference: Why and how to link Mars to Earth?

For the first time in history, a window of time and technology has opened up: humanity is now in a position to link up with another planet, Mars, within a generation… This alignment of the planets coincides with geopolitical issues and the emergence of the private space industry, which are driving and accelerating new fields of exploration and space experiments. But why and how can we link another planet to our world? What’s the urgency? Why Mars and how can we inhabit it? These scientific, technological and philosophical questions, common to all major societal challenges, deal with life in the universe and comparative planetology. They call for a collective awareness that federates cooperation and inspiration, and places us in a new perspective. After all, it’s a question of human beings in all their dimensions, and of their future: since space travel also involves subjective time, what might our perception of time be towards and on Mars, and beyond? Ultimately, the key to such a civilizational transition, towards a sustainable interplanetary history, calls on social and developmental psychology, and brings together the present, past and future of human beings towards a grown-up world, complex and sensitive to shared intentions.