Intrepid Museum
Virtual Astronomy Live
Designing Space Habitats
LIVE EVENT
Sunday, MAy 22th, 2022
3:00 PM EDT
Developing a deep-space habitat will allow a crew to live and work safely in space for long durations on missions to explore the Moon and Mars. The Habitation Systems Development office is a multi-center team working together to develop sustainable living quarters, workspaces, and laboratories for astronauts on next-generation space missions.
Hear from Engineers Paul Kessler and Andrew Choate, who will talk about the development of a Surface Habitat for long-duration missions to the Moon, and the challenges of developing a Transit Habitat that can keep astronauts alive on the journey to Mars.
A 3:00pm pre-show will feature an exclusive, behind-the-scenes look at work being conducted at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, including sustainable food experiments in the Space Station Processing Facility and the recent NASA SpaceX Crew-4 launch.
The event is hosted and co-produced by John “Das” Galloway, founder of the Kerbal Space Academy.
This program is supported through a NASA Cooperative Agreement awarded to the New York Space Grant Consortium.
Participants
Paul Kessler
Lead Architect
Paul Kessler is currently serving as the Lead Architect for the Lunar Surface Habitat design for NASA working for Marshall Space Flight Center. He has worked both in human spaceflight performing systems analysis, concept design, and mission design as well as in Earth science with the Committee on Earth Observation Satellites. He currently lives in Virginia with his wife and three children.
Andrew Choate
Team Lead
Andrew Choate is currently serving as the Mars Transit Habitat Systems Engineering and Integration (SE&I) lead for the Habitation Systems Development Office at NASA Marshal Space Flight Center (MSFC). He supports the NASA team through the Jacobs Space Exploration Group ESSCA contract. Before joining the MSFC team, Mr. Choate supported several large-scale defense, aviation, and space exploration programs. He and his wife have three children and reside in Huntsville, AL.
Summer Ash
Moderator
Summer Ash has been both a rocket scientist and an astrophysicist. She is a freelance science writer and communicator whose work has been published in The Atlantic, NBC News, Smithsonian, Now.Space, Scientific American, Slate, and Nautilus.
John “Das”Galloway
Host and Producer
“Das” is a science outreach communicator who specializes in live, interactive video content. He is the creator of the Kerbal Space Academy, where he uses video games as a tool to start science and engineering conversations with viewers of all ages, and VECTORS Virtual Field Trips, which brings real-time interactive video to museums, events, and historical locations. “Das” also serves as a host and producer for NASASpaceflight.com.
Produced by Intrepid Museum in partnership with Kerbal Space Academy and Egress Productions, LLC.