Fellows
Anastasia Prosina is a space architect, entrepreneur, and author who founded Stellar Amenities, a strategic advisory firm that aids commercial space companies in market entry and habitat design. A recognized industry leader named to the 2023 Payload Pioneer 30 Under 30 list, her work includes an award-winning research paper on self-assembling habitats at the MIT Media Lab, developing zero-gravity tactile wayfinding tools for disabled astronauts with AstroAccess, and authoring the forthcoming book, Space Wombism: The Next Billion Years of Human Shelter. She holds a B.Arch in Urban Planning from Novosibirsk State University and an MS in Space Architecture from the University of Houston.
During the Evermay Future Fellows residency, Anastasia is working to preserve 60 years of human spaceflight knowledge that is at risk of permanent loss due to federal defunding and the retirement of senior NASA personnel. To address this, she is building the Space Architecture Fund, an initiative that applies a conservation-finance framework to treat critical spaceflight knowledge as a “civilizational commons” requiring formal stewardship. During her residency, she will draft a publishable framework on this concept and convene DC-based policy discussions focused on crew health commercialization, accessibility standards, and the governance of orbital resources. Ultimately, her goal is to shift federal regulations to recognize spaceflight knowledge stewardship as protected public infrastructure rather than just proprietary intellectual property.
