Long Bio

Anastasia Prosina is a Russian-American space architect and commercial strategist working to commercialize space architecture: turning the design of habitats, crew systems, and interiors into products and programs the space economy can buy. She is founder and CEO of Stellar Amenities, a strategic advisory and R&D firm that converts space architecture insight into competitive advantage in the $53B+ space sector, focused on outfitting lunar habitats and working with space station providers, aerospace primes, Fortune 500 companies, and architecture and engineering firms.

She owns the full commercial lifecycle, from pipeline development, qualification, and capture through forecasting, contract negotiation, and close, across global, cross-border, and ITAR/EAR export-controlled accounts. Her positioning and deal work have supported $46M raised (from Y Combinator, Founders Fund, Amex Ventures, and Prime Movers Lab) and helped close eight-figure infrastructure engagements, including an eight-figure lunar infrastructure contract.

Anastasia leads a team of human factors engineers, business development contractors, and vetted specialists, managing human systems R&D across the full project lifecycle to NASA standards (NASA-STD-3001, Artemis, Human Research Program, Commercial LEO Destinations), spanning astronaut sleep systems, crew quarters, AI crew support, accessibility hardware, and habitat interiors, much of it validated in parabolic flight. With AstroAccess she designed tactile wayfinding for blind and low-vision astronauts, flight-tested aboard ZERO-G and featured in ESA's “Fly!” feasibility study, and her team's work went on to inform ESA's disability playbook. She was selected by the Aurelia Institute and MIT for a 2024 zero-gravity flight to develop a deep-pressure sleep countermeasure built with NASA Johnson Space Center and Axiom Space medical input.

A visiting researcher at the MIT Media Lab's Space Exploration Initiative, she is a co-author of the AIAA Best Professional Paper (2020) for the TESSERAE self-assembling habitat platform. She serves as a reviewer and judge for the NASA Human Research Program, chaired the Space Architecture sessions at AIAA ASCEND (2022, 2023), and has served on the AIAA Space Architecture Technical Committee since 2017, contributing to the AIAA Space Architecture Decadal Survey. She was named to Payload's inaugural Pioneers 30 Under 30 (2023), selected by a panel of Blue Origin and U.S. Department of Defense executives. Her work has been featured in The Washington Post, Scientific American, CNN, Aerospace America, and BBC Science Focus.

As a 2026 Evermay Future Fellow at Georgetown's Embassy for the Future, she is working on how humanity keeps what it learns in space. We are going back to the Moon, and this time to stay. Artemis and the commercial stations are designing the first places people will live off Earth, yet the technology that keeps crews healthy stalls in “the valley of death.” Two kinds of knowledge are slipping away at once: sixty years of hard-won expertise is leaving with the space architects who built the field, and the human data that commercial spaceflight now produces stays locked inside the company that paid for the flight. Anastasia works on both, the record and the body, and makes the case for a lab built to carry them across.

She is the author of the forthcoming Space Wombism: The Next Billion Years of Human Shelter, with a foreword by Frank White. 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 (SICSA).