Ariel Ekblaw

So we're also thinking about the shielding that's required to provide good radiation protection.

Yeah.

So one of the interesting things about deep space exploration is we're going to have to be able to grow our own space.

agriculture.

We have to be able to be self-sustaining in a future space station.

And this actually does still come back down and benefit life on Earth in that example of our kind of mission-driven work that's focused on Earth first in areas that are torn by natural disasters or really resource-constrained environments.

There's a lot that we can learn from space agriculture and then be able to take some of those lessons down to Earth.

We just did a big space garden project with Daikin, one of the world's largest HVAC companies, thinking about how do you

Keep air humidified.

How do you keep it at the right temperature in an extreme environment?

How do you get CO2 out of the air and turn it into oxygen for humans or the opposite for plants, right?

Plants need CO2.

So we're working with some exceptional partners to put together this notion of a

space garden?

How would we actually do plant growth in orbit?

And then brought this to the Venice Architecture Biennale earlier this year.

Yes, I think there's a mix.

It's going to be humans and robots working together.

So we call this human-robotic interaction or the symbiosis between humans and robots.

In the future, we're already thinking about things like AI data centers in space, partly to get the carbon footprint of those installations off of Earth, but also to get really abundant green energy from