Cassandra Klos is a fine art photographer, curator, and analog astronaut. She grew up in New Hampshire where, in her youth, she watched many science fiction movies and viewed galaxies through her telescope in the backyard. She holds her Bachelors of Fine Arts from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and her Masters of Fine Arts from Duke University. Her artwork focuses on deciphering the truth from fiction, through the mediums of photography, audio, and installation. She has served on three simulated Mars missions, two at the Mars Desert Research Station in Hanksville, Utah and one at the Hawai'i Space Exploration Analog and Simulation on the Big Island. For almost a decade, Cassandra has bridged her analog missions with a photography project which documents these simulated missions and surrounding technology and invention. With space suits, freeze-dried food, and Mission Control waiting back "home," the photographs attempt to visualize what space travel might be like for the first space explorers. The project is ongoing as technology and simulated training changes. Cassandra currently resides in Boston, Massachusetts with her husband and pup.