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Advancing Intelligent Personal Assistants for Human Spaceflight Bensch, Leonie Bensch, Oliver Nilsson, Tommy Conversational Assistant Intelligent Personal Assistant Artificial Intelligence Astronaut Human Spaceflight Generative Pre-Trained Transformer (GPT) Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) Knowledge Graphs Augmented Reality Voice Assistant Long Duration Spaceflight The Artemis program and upcoming missions to Mars mark a new era of human space exploration that will require new tools to support astronaut autonomy in the absence of real-time communication with Earth. This paper investigates the role of voice-based intelligent personal assistants (IPAs) in future crewed space missions. Through semi-structured interviews with astronauts (n=3) and spaceflight experts (n=12), we identify key user-centered design requirements for IPAs in this uniquely constrained and safety-critical environment. Our thematic analysis reveals core requirements for flexibility, reliability, offline capability, and multimodal interaction. Drawing on these findings, we outline design guidelines for next-generation IPAs and discuss how technologies such as retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), knowledge graphs, and augmented reality should be combined to support flexible, reliable, and multimodal IPAs for future human spaceflight missions. Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik Leonie Bensch and Oliver Bensch and Tommy Nilsson 2025 Is Part Of OASIcs, Volume 130, Advancing Human-Computer Interaction for Space Exploration (SpaceCHI 2025) InProceedings Text doc-type:ResearchArticle publishedVersion application/pdf doi:10.4230/OASIcs.SpaceCHI.2025.18 urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-240082 https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/OASIcs.SpaceCHI.2025.18 eng https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode