Until recently, space transportation meant one thing: launch. A few companies, a handful of rockets, and an expensive ticket to orbit—if you were lucky. Today, that’s still true. Most transportation in space is about getting things to space: satellites, scientific payloads, the occasional astronaut. Launch
Space tourism was never modest in fiction. In 2001: A Space Odyssey, passengers travel aboard a silent spaceplane to a wheel-shaped orbital station, sipping drinks in artificial gravity. In Total Recall, vacations to Mars are sold as packages. More recently, The Expanse and For All
Space architecture is a strange field. It deals with building environments for places where humans did not evolve and were never meant to live. It borrows from civil engineering, aerospace, psychology, biology, and sometimes speculative design. It’s not about skyscrapers or aesthetics first, but about
