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ArchiSpace: Space Architecture Design and Prototyping in Planetary Analogue Environments
July 2025 • Francesca Mancini, Pascal Allemand, Abdelaziz Bacaoui, Henriette Bier, Mariana Correia, Ákos Keresztúri, F. Salese, Kamal Taj-Eddine, Giuseppe Calabr…
IntroductionThis decade marks our goal to return to the Moon—this time, to stay.It is therefore crucial to develop reliable and safe settlements that adequately protect astronaut’s physical and mental well-being from all possible threats that the hostile environment of extraterrestrial space presents.ArchiSpace aims to design and build sub-system prototypes (e.g., floors, walls, roofs, etc.) of human infrastructures to be built on planetary surfaces, which will be tested in analogue environments on-Earth. This pro…