Anastasia Prosina
Founder & CEO
Entrepreneurial leader with over a decade across commercialization, business development, and human factors in human spaceflight. She leads the firm's team of human-factors engineers and business-development contractors. Ex-MIT Media Lab and a NASA Human Research Program reviewer, with an MS in Space Architecture.
Anthony Sims
Advisor · Former Chief Designer, SpaceX Dragon
Former Chief Designer of SpaceX Dragon. Advises on industrial design and applied research addressing NASA Human Research Program gaps.
Scott Summit
Advisor · Design Director
Product designer specializing in 3D-printed, human-centered design. Co-founder of Bespoke Innovations, which pioneered custom 3D-printed prosthetic fairings (acquired by 3D Systems, where he served as Design Director), and an early advisor and board member of Made In Space — the company that put the first 3D printer on the ISS. Brings deep expertise in mass-customization and designing hardware to the human body.
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
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
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.
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.
"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)
