On the cutting edge of technology and exploration, there are no certainties. All the planning and simulations cannot safeguard against uncertainty. Anomalies and unforeseen circumstances have the potential to throw a wrench into even the most well-planned mission. It is for this reason that the degree to which a habitat can adapt to the needs of the users and the mission becomes valuable unto itself. This adaptation takes many forms, but I’ll focus on those of modularity, flexibility, and interchangeability.

Whether it be the size, population, technology, or any other aspect, the combination of these factors determines in some way the future time period that the design’s construction may be plausible. I have applied these factors to a timeline showing where they might have a chance of appearing in our future. I have broken this timeline into three periods that I view as categorically different from one another. I have chosen to name these time periods the Near Term, the Medium Term, and the Far Term.

Designs, sketches, papers, and theory for space architecture, space habitats, space stations, and more.