Full-scale Haven-1 crew cabin mockup, Vast, Long Beach, 2025.
Image courtesy of Vast Space, LLC.
Anastasia Prosina is a space architect, published researcher, and founder of Stellar Amenities, a human spaceflight R&D and market intelligence consultancy working with space station providers, aerospace primes, and Fortune 500 companies. She was previously a visiting researcher at the MIT Media Lab.
She serves as a research reviewer and judge for the NASA Human Research Program Investigator Workshop, and chairs sessions and reviews papers in space architecture for the International Astronautical Congress and the International Conference on Environmental Systems.
She is the author of the forthcoming book Space Wombism: The Next Billion Years of Human Shelter, which examines spacecraft as technological wombs: protective environments that sustain life while transforming human consciousness, social structures, and our relationship with the environments that shelter us.
She holds a B.Arch in Urban Design and Planning from Novosibirsk State University and an M.S. in Space Architecture from the University of Houston.
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