Editorial boundary: This public alpha is generated from version-controlled source without third-party application or build packages. It is not the reviewed 1.0 corpus: 60 Academy lessons are substantive editorial drafts, 0 remain foundation outlines, and independent domain review remains open.
Current state
- ISS, HERA, CHAPEA, Mars500, Concordia, submarines, and polar stations provide partial evidence about isolation and confined operations.
- Spaceflight experience consistently values private quarters, shared meals, controllable lighting, recreation, personalization, and social choice.
- Archives and AI can preserve explicit information, while embodied skills still require apprenticeship and practice.
Major unknowns
- No analog reproduces birth, childhood, aging, irreversible separation, ecological closure, and governance across generations.
- Mission dissent, grief, boredom, family change, religious plurality, and cultural evolution cannot be solved by crew selection.
- Minimum volume standards do not establish the spatial requirements of a healthy civil community.
Failure modes
- Isolation, sleep disruption, conflict, trauma, monotony, or status inequality degrades cooperation and safety.
- Critical tacit skills disappear despite a nominally complete archive and training curriculum.
Useful precursors
- Polar, submarine, expedition, offshore, and Mars-analog studies with transparent participant protections.
- Intergenerational education, apprenticeship, conflict mediation, and mental-health systems tested in real communities.
Decision gate
Demonstrate that residents can retain privacy, education, cultural choice, political agency, and meaningful non-mission lives under scarcity.
Claim records
- A survivable vessel is not automatically a livable society; people need privacy, agency, family, play, culture, dissent, nature, meaningful work, and the ability to remake inherited institutions. (normative · early-research · supported; two independent reviewers required for governance, intergenerational-rights; current review: pending-two-person-required)
- ISS, HERA, CHAPEA, Mars500, Concordia, submarines, and polar stations provide partial evidence about isolation and confined operations. (demonstrated · major-scale-up · strong; two independent reviewers required for governance, privacy, labor, behavioral-health, intergenerational-rights; current review: pending-two-person-required)
- Spaceflight experience consistently values private quarters, shared meals, controllable lighting, recreation, personalization, and social choice. (demonstrated · major-scale-up · supported; two independent reviewers required for privacy, culture, disability, labor, governance; current review: pending-two-person-required)
- Archives and AI can preserve explicit information, while embodied skills still require apprenticeship and practice. (demonstrated · major-scale-up · supported; two independent reviewers required for education, labor, culture, surveillance, governance; current review: pending-two-person-required)
- No analog reproduces birth, childhood, aging, irreversible separation, ecological closure, and governance across generations. (unknown · no-known-path · supported; two independent reviewers required for child-rights, family, disability, intergenerational-rights, governance; current review: pending-two-person-required)
- Mission dissent, grief, boredom, family change, religious plurality, and cultural evolution cannot be solved by crew selection. (proposed · early-research · supported; two independent reviewers required for culture, family, privacy, governance, intergenerational-rights; current review: pending-two-person-required)
- Minimum volume standards do not establish the spatial requirements of a healthy civil community. (unknown · early-research · supported; two independent reviewers required for disability, privacy, family, child-rights, labor; current review: pending-two-person-required)
- Human-centered extreme-environment design improves hospitals, control rooms, shelters, vessels, and remote workplaces. (proposed · major-scale-up · tentative; two independent reviewers required for medical, disability, privacy, spacecraft-safety; current review: pending-two-person-required)
- Knowledge-continuity methods strengthen institutions facing retirement, disaster, and technological change. (proposed · operational · supported; two independent reviewers required for education, labor, governance, culture; current review: pending-two-person-required)
- Demonstrate that residents can retain privacy, education, cultural choice, political agency, and meaningful non-mission lives under scarcity. (normative · early-research · supported; two independent reviewers required for governance, intergenerational-rights, disability, labor, child-rights; current review: pending-two-person-required)
Context sources—not claim citations
Foundation system synthesis · Linked claims editorially assessed · Independent system review pending · Suggest a correction
