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Crew health and habitation systems for human spaceflight

Stellar Amenities works at the intersection of space architecture, crew health and commercialization.

Stellar Amenities Lab is an American R&D lab in San Francisco.

United States flag2026 has seen more private investment in space than any year in history, with $92.5 billion invested in the first nine months. Yet human systems, the technology that keeps crews alive and healthy, account for less than 1% of the projected lunar economy. Now the White House has made crewed spaceflight enablers a national priority.

Our work focuses on four crew health risks from NASA’s Human Research Program roadmap for long-duration missions.

We turn known astronaut health problems into technology that flies.

Most promising space health technology stalls between the lab and flight, a gap known as the valley of death. Our work is built to get across it. Read our valley of death report →

How we work
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Companies and products built from our research

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Incubated at the Lab

Ethereal Matter

A full-body haptic EVA trainer. NASA’s Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory trains spacewalks in a 6.2-million-gallon pool, and ARGOS offloads gravity with an overhead crane. Its platform, MEK, gives astronauts real force feedback in a compact system, without the pool or the rig.

Confidential product

A crew health system for in development with former NASA and commercial station leads, aimed at on NASA’s Human Research Program roadmap.

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Technical report
Featured reportNovember 2026

Waste Management on Crewed Spacecraft

Our technical review of waste systems on crewed spacecraft, from the ISS toilet to Mars transit, and the procurement and certification changes that would give new designs a path to flight.

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Our team has worked alongside space agencies, universities and nonprofits, and partnered with them on the same missions.

In the press

Our team on Moon bases, space habitats and crew health

BBC Science FocusScience Focus
Illustration ©︎ Mitchell Stuart, BBC Science Focus
Featured · August 29, 2026Read ↗︎

The race to establish the first Moon base is on. And the stakes couldn’t be higher

By Jonathan O’Callaghan · BBC Science Focus · August 29, 2026

Aerospace America
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Staying alive

“The system has to work reliably for different body types while using minimal water.”

Discover
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Giant space habitats: science fiction or the future?

“Light cycles, noise control, privacy and community spaces must be considered to support mental health.”

Interesting Engineering
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The challenges of building human habitats in space

Space habitats as a marriage of engineering and architecture, and what microgravity does to the body.

European Space Agency
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Accessibility in Human Spaceflight

Our talk at ESA on tactile navigation for AstroAccess crews.

The Washington Post
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Welcome to ‘Snark Tank,’ where Silicon Valley start-ups get roasted

Stellar Amenities on stage at a Silicon Valley start-up showcase, July 28, 2024.