Marc Cohen

Recognized under Tier 3 — Structural Habitats & Space Architecture, Marc M. Cohen has spent decades pioneering space architecture and extraterrestrial habitat design. Through Astrotecture® and an extensive career at NASA Ames and beyond, Cohen has helped define the discipline of space architecture itself, developing design concepts, human factors frameworks, and habitat configurations for long-duration spaceflight and planetary surface operations. The question of where and how humans will actually live on Mars is as fundamental as any propulsion or life-support challenge, and Cohen's work has kept that question rigorously grounded in both engineering reality and human need.