This article is a celebration of trending LinkedIn posts from amazing Women in Aviation and Aerospace.

Overwhelming one hundred and twenty-five nominations. Nominees coming from twenty-four different countries. Sixty-two answered our google form answering the question of what they do, who they follow on LinkedIn, and their most successful post.

We arranged the list by using the criteria "Average Post Engagement" where we averaged the nominee's fourteen recent posts and one successful post. It's not the only way to do it, but you gotta pick one. All these women are absolutely incredible and worth a follow and support.

Four months after our initial announcement, we are excited to share the results!

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SpaceWatch.Global is pleased to present the 28th episode in our podcast series The Space Cafe Podcast: Mahsa Moghimi Esfandabadi, Space Architect. What our habitats on foreign shores will look like?

Mahsa Moghimi Esfandabadi builds houses. Preferably for places like Mars or the Moon. Because in the not too distant future, we will need permanent dwellings out there. But as you might expect, it’s not that simple and will take generations of research. Space is and remains merciless when it comes to offering humans a potentially new home. But Mahsa will not be shaken off that easily as she calls persistence one of her magic skills. Get on board and take an exclusive tour of a future habitat in distant worlds with this new edition of the Space Cafe Podcast.

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Presentation at The 3rd International AIAA LA-LV Space Architecture Gathering

Space Architects are involved in proposing visions and a variety of concepts for habitation in extreme environments that include human space activity, especially for near term missions. Preintegrated, deployable, erectable and hybrid structures that use local resources are sought. Visions range from habitats in Earth Orbit, on the Moon, Mars and in cislunar space.

Here on Earth, several simulations have provided insight into crew needs and behavior and many more are planned or in various stages of development. Out of these missions, exercises and proposals are also born energy and resource conscious designs for immediate applications on Earth, in specialized facilities and in our smart cities, and dwellings.

This international gathering of space architects will present some visions and projects being contemplated for both space and Earth applications.

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What will we eat in space? How will we grow it? What psychological and cultural benefits can be derived from future greenhouses in space? On this week's episode, we’ll discuss space architecture and specifically the design of greenhouses for the Moon and Mars.

My guest on the show, Mahsa Esfandabadi, designs habitats and greenhouses for Mars, the Moon, and zero-gravity environments. She has over ten years experience working as a professional architect, project manager, and assistant professor. She has studied the past, present, and future of architecture at the graduate level receiving a masters in Middle Eastern-Iranian Architecture Studies, a masters in Architectural Engineering, as well as, a masters in Aerospace Architecture. She is the first Middle Eastern graduate of the AeroSpace Architecture program at the University of Houston, and the first person from the Middle East to serve on the Space Architecture Technical Committee.

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Established in response to the global lockdowns due to the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, WDO sought to adapt its longest-standing programme dating back to the 1970s, Inter-design, for a virtual context that would safely and effectively engage the global design community. Drawing inspiration from past in-person and virtual design workshops, WDO’s World Design Challenges have already become a significant opportunity for designers to collaborate with peers and other disciplines on initiatives of local relevance and international appeal.

The following report presents an overview of the Design in Space for Life on Earth Design Challenge hosted by the World Design Organization (WDO) in collaboration with the Center for the Advancement of Science in Space (CASIS), manager of the International Space Station U.S. National Laboratory (ISS National Lab).

Held over a two-week period from 28 September – 5 October 2020, this unique initiative brought together over 70 space industry leaders, researchers, and designers from 26 countries to apply design thinking to space-based research for life on Earth

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