{"id":231047,"date":"2026-02-10T21:09:04","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T03:09:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/how-to-design-a-space-station-meet-the-seattle-company-thats-helping-define-the-look-of-the-final-frontier"},"modified":"2026-02-10T21:09:04","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T03:09:04","slug":"how-to-design-a-space-station-meet-the-seattle-company-thats-helping-define-the-look-of-the-final-frontier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/how-to-design-a-space-station-meet-the-seattle-company-thats-helping-define-the-look-of-the-final-frontier","title":{"rendered":"How to design a space station: Meet the Seattle company that\u2019s helping define the look of the final frontier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/how-to-design-a-space-station-meet-the-seattle-company-thats-helping-define-the-look-of-the-final-frontier2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>How do you design a living space where there\u2019s no up or down? That\u2019s one of the challenges facing <a href=\"https:\/\/teague.com\/\">Teague<\/a>, a Seattle-based design and innovation firm that advises space companies such as Blue Origin, Axiom Space and Voyager Technologies on how to lay out their orbital outposts.<\/p>\n<p>Mike Mahoney, Teague\u2019s senior director of space and defense programs, says the zero-gravity environment is the most interesting element to consider in space station design.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou can\u2019t put things on surfaces, right? You\u2019re not going to have tables, necessarily, unless you can attach things to them, and they could be on any surface,\u201d he told GeekWire. \u201cSo, directionality is a big factor. And knowing that opens up new opportunities. \u2026 You could have, let\u2019s say, two scientists working in different orientations in the same area.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How do you design a living space where there\u2019s no up or down? That\u2019s one of the challenges facing Teague, a Seattle-based design and innovation firm that advises space companies such as Blue Origin, Axiom Space and Voyager Technologies on how to lay out their orbital outposts. Mike Mahoney, Teague\u2019s senior director of space and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1522,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-231047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-innovation","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=231047"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231047\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}