"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
Humankind may only have a short window, on the order of 50 years, to become a space-faring civilization, after which the opportunity may become too difficult or impractical to pursue. That argument became the founding premise: the timing to make a serious effort toward multi-planet status is now, not later.
Human-centered design is now
Space crews will need to co-exist with each other and perform a wide variety of challenging operations in a relatively low-volume habitat for months or years at a time. To maximize efficiency with the flexibility to reconfigure, repurpose, or utilize space for multiple functions, our goal is to optimize crew performance while maintaining crew privacy provisions. Two essential elements of spacecraft habitat design.
NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman and Alexander Gerst training in the Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory for a confined, low-volume mission environment. Credit: NASA.
Our vision
Our vision is to accelerate the transition from a multi-species planet to a multi-planetary species, and make it smooth. According to NASA, crew behavioral health is the second biggest risk, after radiation, in human access to space, meaning even a small chance of conflict can jeopardize an entire mission. Since environments affect mood, human-centered design plays a crucial role in the New Space Age.
We are pioneering the movement of being efficient in space missions while fostering the wellbeing of space explorers through architectural design. For a smooth transition to post-humanity.
We are taking small but frequent steps toward that vision. We believe that in the early days of settlement and expansion, lightweight, compact, and ever-changing solutions to support long missions are crucial to quickly establishing a new planetary society with scarce resources. We are practical dreamers, backed by expertise in the aerospace industry.
Where that's led
That founding goal, enclosures that sustain human life in extreme environments, started in space because space makes the problem impossible to fake your way through. It has since carried into two businesses: a consultancy that takes on that problem for clients today, and a Lab that's building the technology to solve it in-house, for good. The same discipline now extends past space into any environment that demands it: underwater, underground, and private aviation among them.
Anastasia
Anastasia is originally from Siberia. She has spent her career finding her way into the most hostile environments there are, first as an architecture intern across Hong Kong, Lithuania, and Russia, then into orbital and lunar habitat design, and now into space itself. Along the way: co-directing a 10,000-inhabitant orbital city concept (Galaktika/EFIR) with 4th Planet Logistics, designing a six-person Mars analog habitat for an Icelandic lava tube presented at the Mars Society Convention, modernizing habitable volume for a private crewed capsule at Excalibur Almaz, and a visiting researcher post at MIT Media Lab's Space Exploration Initiative on TESSERAE, a self-assembling space station concept.
She also runs Analog, a capital raise and positioning consultancy for deep tech and infrastructure companies, work that has supported $46M raised from Y Combinator, Founders Fund, Amex Ventures, and Prime Movers Lab, and contributed to the Momentus Series B ahead of its 2021 public listing at a $1.2B valuation. She holds the MIT Media Lab Zero-G payload certification course credential, used to fly hardware, including the Space Hug deep pressure therapy vest. Through flight qualification for parabolic testing.