Human Exploration Architecture
NASA’s Strategy for Crewed Exploration of Deep Space
What is Architecture?
When most think of architecture, they envision skyscrapers, cantilevered homes, or marbled museums. In this case, architecture isn’t the built environment. It isn’t a mission, a manifest, or a set of requirements. Instead, NASA’s human exploration architecture defines the elements needed for long-term, human-led scientific discovery in deep space.
NASA’s architecture approach distills agency-developed objectives into operational capabilities and elements that support science and exploration goals. Working with experts across the agency, industry, academia, and the international community, NASA continuously evolves that blueprint for crewed exploration, setting humanity on a path to the Moon, Mars, and beyond.
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Architecture Domains
NASA's human exploration architecture comprises Artemis, the missions that will return astronauts to the Moon; Moon Base, the systems enabling astronauts to live and work on the lunar surface; and Mars, the development efforts contributing to the first human missions to the Red Planet.
