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Mobile Space Adventures brings a working starship bridge simulation to schools, leadership teams, and space centers across Texas. Six-person crews fly a live mission while the Mission Analysis System records how they actually communicate, decide, and lead under pressure. The mission is the experience. The report is the product. Mobile Space Adventures is the measurement layer leadership has been missing. mobilespaceadventures.org
Mobile Space Adventures runs starship bridge missions that turn how a team leads under pressure into written behavioral evidence.
The verifiable details.
| Full name | Mobile Space Adventures |
|---|---|
| Based | Texas |
| Founder | Mike Donahoo |
| What it is | A mobile starship bridge simulation paired with the Mission Analysis System, a behavioral measurement layer |
| Who it serves | Schools with students in grades 5 to 12, leadership teams, museums and space centers |
| Mission length | 30 to 90 minutes, six people per crew |
| Deliverable | A role-labeled crew performance report in plain language |
| Simulation platform | Starship Horizons, licensed from its developer |
| Student data | All processing is local, on MSA equipment, inside your building. No student audio, video, or transcript data leaves the site |
| Contact | [email protected] · (737) 260-0362 |
Missions flown
UT Austin ROADS
First delivered engagement, flown with the ROADS program at The University of Texas at Austin.
Kitty Hawk Middle School
124 students across 21 crews in a single school day, two bridges running side by side.
LiftOff Educator Institute
More than 50 master STEM educators from across Texas flew missions at the 2026 LiftOff summer institute.
Mike Donahoo
Founder, Mobile Space Adventures. Mike learned the bridge simulation style directly from Utah practitioners, then built the measurement layer that the tradition never had and adapted the whole thing for mobile delivery in Texas. He flies every mission himself.
Title for attribution: Mike Donahoo, founder of Mobile Space Adventures. LinkedIn
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How to describe what we measure.
We hold ourselves to claims that survive a skeptical procurement officer, and we would rather be described narrowly and accurately than generously and wrongly. If you are writing about the measurement side, these are the sentences we stand behind.
Accurate
- Records crew voice traffic and pairs it with mission telemetry to attribute what was said to a crew station.
- Produces qualitative, role-labeled behavioral observations in plain language.
- Every claim in a report carries a confidence flag, and growth statements ship with directional caveats.
- Grounded in the Crew Resource Management behavioral-marker tradition and the Salas Big Five teamwork model.
- Designed as formative evidence and a starting point for a coach-led debrief.
Please avoid
- "Research validated" or "scientifically validated." Our validation work is ongoing and we say so.
- Numerical scores, ratings, or competency percentages. We do not publish them.
- Any claim that a report predicts who will succeed or fail.
- NASA affiliation or endorsement of any kind.
- Affiliation with or endorsement by the Christa McAuliffe Space Center.
- Claims about state accountability credit, teacher-incentive documentation, or sole-source procurement status.
Mobile Space Adventures is not affiliated with NASA and does not act on behalf of NASA. MSA's measurement design draws on the Crew Resource Management behavioral-marker tradition and the Salas Big Five teamwork model. References to NASA-TLX cite a publicly available NASA workload instrument and are used solely to describe the basis of MSA's cognitive-workload measurement.
Mobile Space Adventures is not affiliated with or endorsed by the Christa McAuliffe Space Center.
Where we came from, and who has written about us.
The bridge simulation style we run traces to the model Victor Williamson pioneered in Utah beginning in 1990, where generations of students have flown missions that demand leadership rather than participation. We learned the style from Utah practitioners before adapting it for mobile delivery in Texas. Credit where it is owed.
The Troubadour
Victor Williamson's long-running blog on Utah space education and simulator programs. It covered Mobile Space Adventures in its July 5, 2026 edition.
Starship Horizons
The bridge simulation platform our missions run on, licensed from its developer. The Mission Analysis System is our own work built on top of it.
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