New whitepaper: How to Build on the Moon, with commentary from Niki Werkheiser, former NASA Director of Technology Maturation, shaped by conversations with the former ISS DirectorNew whitepaper: How to Build on the Moon, with commentary from Niki Werkheiser, former NASA Director of Technology Maturation, shaped by conversations with the former ISS DirectorNew whitepaper: How to Build on the Moon, with commentary from Niki Werkheiser, former NASA Director of Technology Maturation, shaped by conversations with the former ISS Director
About

We work on the human layer of spaceflight.

Keeping people alive, healthy, and productive inside the vehicles and habitats being built right now — the part of the mission that decides whether crews can actually live and work in space, not just reach it.

"Considering natural events, available energies, and human tendencies, the timing to make the most effective effort to achieve multi-planet status is now, before momentum is lost and we become distracted by changing energy economies."

Scott Howe, Senior Systems Engineer at NASA JPL

Why the human layer, now

Space crews co-exist and perform demanding operations inside a low-volume habitat for months at a time. Our work is to optimize crew performance while protecting privacy and wellbeing — two essentials of habitat design still too often treated as afterthoughts.

NASA ranks crew behavioral health as the second-largest risk to a mission after radiation. How a space is designed — where people sleep, eat, work, and find a moment alone — directly shapes whether the mission succeeds.

NASA astronauts training underwater at the Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory
NASA astronauts training in the Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory for a confined, low-volume mission environment. Credit: NASA.
Our vision

To accelerate the transition from a multi-species planet to a multi-planetary species — and to make it smooth. We're practical dreamers backed by real aerospace expertise, taking small but frequent steps toward that future.

What we do → Meet the team The Lab