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Telling the stories of the University of Houston, this is a UH Moment.
"Three, two, one. Fire!" [explosion]
As pioneers explore the final frontier, they take a little of the University of Houston
with them, and a lot of the work of Larry Bell.
He directs the U.H. Space Architecture Program at the Sasakawa International Center for Space
Architecture, or SICSA.
Not actually architects in space, the program is concerned with the architecture of space.
Specifically, the challenges of living and working in extreme environments.
"We're not looking just at a habitat, necessarily, but we're looking at how people operate in
that habitat. How would you build it? How would you launch it? How would you land it?
How would you deploy it?"
SICSA's interdisciplinary researchers are team members with space agencies and industry
partners working to conceptualize habitats and systems for living and working on the
Moon, on Mars, in the ocean, or at the top of the world. And the graduates' space architecture
program is unique to planet Earth.
"They come here to take those big pictures and convert them into workable designs and
concepts that are defensible."
SICSA and the UH Space Architecture Program are part of what's happening at the University
of Houston. I'm Marisa Ramirez.
Telling the stories of the University of Houston, this UH Moment is made possible by KUHF, a
listener-supported radio from the University of Houston.