Building resilience for long duration space flight : a multiple project study across multiple discipline areas with primary hosts as architecture and industrial design tertiary programs in USA and Australia

![CDATA[International cooperation on space flight project development starts on earth by way of professional introductions between prospective host organizations and collaborators with major and minor actors. Complex prior projects provide insights and the ongoing foundational knowledge from which new innovations can launch and new ideas can come from both seasoned researchers, and commercial partnerships (NASA, SpaceX), but also fresh minds as the knowledge sets are brought together and interact to form new innovative perspectives. Universities as research test-beds for capturing the imaginations of new professional generations are an exciting environment to focus discipline skills and recalibrate career ambitions and trajectories. Space exploration exemplars as the International Space Station (ISS) provides an example of an enabling platform where cooperative relations in developing, constructing human habitation systems provide evidence that national and international collaborations are core to the development of future missions and lunar habitation. Future long-duration spaceflight and exploration missions will require from the crew to perform at their maximum capacity. Habitation architecture and spacecraft design must respect habitability needs including health, functional and safety requirements, which should be addressed at every stage of the design process: “considering people to be more than an 'element' of the system but its modifier and innovatorâ€Ã‚ (Haeuplik-Meusburger S., Bannova O., 2016). This paper presents the results of a cross disciplinary approach to habitation system development for long-duration missions (LDMs) in relation to crew health systems; and alternate activities for managing stress triggers in confined environments and explored via a project-oriented strategy. Students from involved universities and programs have advanced their design for space interactions through identifying and acquiring information and knowledge, analysing it, and synthesizing the results in development of concepts and prototypes. Such approach to project development enables collaboration from multiple disciplines ranging from literature reviews to consultative actions. Prototyping of proposed designs are influenced by physiological, neurological, biomechanical, mechanical, and spatial considerations in maximising cardiovascular health, maintaining muscle strength, and promoting good astronaut emotional health through integrated socialisation on long duration Mars flights through fit-for-purpose exercise (pastime) equipment. The collaborative project draws from methodologies including design thinking, ergonomics principles, cognitive science, trust and collaboration, and architectural practice forming teams, research steps and iterative design processes. This paper describes the journey from a Stage One qualitative reflection viewpoint on a journey that contains Australian undergraduate industrial design newcomers to engagement in designing for space.]]