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Architecture is the thoughtful making of space.

I think space, architectural space, is my thing. It's not about facade, elevation, making image, making money. My passion is creating space.

I am an architect, first.

I cannot join the space program and restart my life as an astronaut, but this opportunity to connect my abilities as an educator with my interests in history and space is a unique opportunity to fulfill my early fantasies.

I've been approached to do some things with astronauts and the preparation that astronauts go through.

Space has always been the spiritual dimension of architecture. It is not the physical statement of the structure so much as what it contains that moves us.

When it comes to space, I see it as my job, I'm building infrastructure the hard way. I'm using my resources to put in place heavy lifting infrastructure so the next generation of people can have a dynamic, entrepreneurial explosion into space.

I'm working to bring celestial objects like the sun and moon into the spaces that we inhabit.

When we project the specific organization of the human body into the space outside it, then we have architecture.