How the Aurelia Institute is designing a self-assembling space station

A team of architects, designers, and engineers at a Boston nonprofit are rethinking how to live and work more comfortably and affordably in space.

The next housing boom will happen above Earth. Replacements for an aging International Space Station (ISS) slated for a 2030 decommission, NASA’s Artemis mission returning humans to the moon and possibly Mars, and a burgeoning lunar economy are spurring teams of engineers and designers to reimagine habitats for extended living and working in space.