Space Wombism
The Next Billion Years of Human Shelter. The forthcoming book by Anastasia Prosina, with a foreword by Frank White.
← HomeSpace Wombism reframes the spacecraft as a technological womb: a protective environment that keeps human life intact while it transforms human consciousness, social structure, and our relationship with the places that hold us. It is a book about the deep future of shelter, from the first orbital habitats to the settlements that will carry us across the next billion years.
The Argument
Every era of human life has been defined by the shelters it could build. Space Wombism argues that the habitats designed in the next fifty years, in orbit, on the Moon, and beyond, will decide whether human consciousness endures past this planet. The book brings together space architecture, NASA crew health research, and the long arc of civilizational technology to ask a single question: what does it take to keep humans alive, well, and fully human, far from Earth.
Foreword
“Who would have thought that an organic image like the womb might be our new vision of space habitats? Well, space architect Anastasia Prosina has.”
Frank White, author of The Overview Effect, who wrote the book's foreword.
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