In one sense, the process of designing for space is similar to designing a building, but the specific, practical knowledge that’s needed for designing in space is quite different from that of building things on Earth.

I can’t be the only one doing the math on this.

When it comes to putting people into space, ‘space is hard’ in several different ways, but one of them is keeping them alive once they get there.

We expect a lot of things in our lives to “just work,” and when they don’t, they can end up in the trash and soon get replaced. But neither of those expectations can be taken for granted in space.

In my mind there are something like 3 types of space architecture.