NASA project

ID faculty members Chuck Owen, Dale Fahnstrom, and Keiichi Sato oversaw a student project, funded by NASA, to design a full-scale model of a space station to research and demonstrate methods for improving human experience, specialized systems, and products in a space station. Generating the design concepts and systems for organizing the interior working areas of the station, the work culminated in a sectional mock-up of the space station that measured 14 feet in diameter and 28 feet in length. It houses subsystems for inventory management, utility distribution, and equipment storage, as well as prototypes for a table workstation, personnel quarters, and even an emergency operating room that folds out from the walls.