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
Team

A combined 100+ years across human spaceflight, aerospace, and design.

A small core team, a group of advisors who've shaped the thesis, and a longer list of collaborators and interns who've contributed to the work over the years.

Anastasia Prosina

Anastasia Prosina

Founder & CEO

Entrepreneurial leader with over a decade across commercialization, business development, and human factors in human spaceflight. Ex-MIT Media Lab and a NASA Human Research Program reviewer, with an MS in Space Architecture.

Niki Werkheiser

Niki Werkheiser

Advisor · Former NASA Director of Technology Maturation

25 years at NASA, including Program Executive for the Game Changing Development Program and Lead for the Lunar Surface Innovation Initiative, managing a Technology Maturation portfolio of 100+ projects across 8 NASA Centers. A technical consultant for Hail Mary.

Anthony Sims

Anthony Sims

Director · Former Chief Designer, SpaceX Dragon

Former Chief Designer of SpaceX Dragon. Leads industrial design and applied research addressing NASA Human Research Program gaps.

Grant Anderson

Grant Anderson

Advisor · Paragon Co-founder

Co-founded Paragon Space Development in 1993 and led it as Chief Engineer, then President and CEO. Design lead for the ISS Solar Array Program at Lockheed Martin before Paragon. Stanford-trained, mechanical and aeronautical engineering.

Paul Godfrey

Paul Godfrey

Consultant · Middle East / GCC

A veteran market and media strategist across the Middle East and GCC, with two decades building networks in construction, real estate, and industry publishing. Advises on regional market entry, positioning, and partnerships.

Robert Salazar

Robert Salazar

Contractor · Deployable structures

Deployable-structures designer and origami artist of nearly two decades. At NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, he created the origami crease pattern for the Starshade optical shield, and he designs lightweight structures that fold flat and unfold in space. Previously a Founding Engineer and Heliostat Architect at Reflect Orbital.

Past Collaborators
We're pleased to have worked with some of the best talent in the field — advisors, contractors, and collaborators who've contributed to Stellar Amenities over the years, including people from Sony, Ford, MIT, ASU, SpaceX, and the UN, alongside our past interns.
Louis Beaumont
Ian Knight
Mackenzie Hutcheson
Halle Lowe
Kriss Kennedy
Shahid Azim
Aviya Afra
Waheedah Akberzie
Simon Atkins
Maharshi Bhattacharya
Suzana Bianco
Samuel Binkin
Nicole Chase
Adam Čtverák
Joshua Dunham
Dalal Elsheikh
Christian Falstrup
David Gabriel
Riccardo Gatti
Cole Heinbaugh
Daniil Iakovlev
Daniel Inocente
Morgan Kanu
Halen Mattison
Kyle Meyers
Jan-Michael Rossman
Ryan Watson
Brenda Williamson
Eden Winga
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Disciplines we collaborate across.

We work with a vetted network of contractors and collaborators. If one of these is you, we'd like to hear from you.

Space architecture & habitability

Interior layouts, outfitting, and habitability requirements for commercial stations and lunar surface systems.

Crew health & human factors

Sleep, cognition, performance, and countermeasures translated into design and procurement decisions.

Deployable & structural design

Origami-based and deployable structures, mechanisms, and packaging for volume-constrained hardware.

Market entry & commercial strategy

Positioning, customer discovery, and go-to-market for companies entering the orbital economy.

Brand & partnership development

Mission-participant pipelines and non-space brand partnerships across pharma, consumer, and wellness.

Research & technical writing

Whitepapers, human-factors reviews, and due-diligence work for programs, primes, and investors.

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What people say about the work

"Cool origami tactile environment solution for AstroAccess for blind navigation during microgravity... designed with directionality like scales and pattern density change."

Jamie Molaro, planetary scientist, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory

"Going to look so cool on the Zero-G plane and be incredibly useful for our AstroAccess Ambassadors."

Tim Bailey, Flight Attendant, Zero Gravity Corporation; Executive Director, Yuri's Night

"TESSERAE interior design is looking fantastic. Love the galley tessellation concept."

Ariel Ekblaw, Founding Director, MIT Media Lab Space Exploration Initiative

"A clever synergy between art and science in Buckminster Fuller's manner."

Story Musgrave, retired NASA astronaut

"A unique blend of innovation and practicality."

Dan Goods, visual strategist, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory

"Insightful and fundamental, not only for the space environment but for blind user accessibility everywhere."

Sina Bahram, accessibility consultant, California Science Center & MoMA

"This self-erecting, ultralight, deployable Geodesic Dome takes Buckminster Fuller's ideas into the new Millenium. Desert Snowflake, the winner of the people's votes, is an ode to architectural origami form."

Competition judges, People's Choice Award, Eleven's Marstopia International Architectural Design Competition, on "Desert Snowflake" (with Robert Salazar & Svetlana Krinochkina)