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Construction Level 2 of Phase 3 of NASA's 3D Printed Habitat Challenge Marsha is a technical proposal for a habitat on the surface of Mars built autonomously using local and mission-grown materials. DESIGN & CONSTRUCTION TEAM Jeffrey Montes (Team Leader) Christopher James Botham David I. Malott David Riedel Sima Shahverdi CONSORTIUM PARTNER Virginia Tech Center for Design Research Macromolecules Innovation Institute at Virginia Tech OPERATIONS, FACILITIES & EQUIPMENT SUPPORT Autodesk Technology Center Boston CONSULTANTS Structural engineering – Thornton Tomasetti (Dennis C.K. Poon, Chi Chung Tse, Saravanan Panchacharam, Hao Chen) Lighting design – Haniyeh Mirdamadi, Arup Test engineering – Simpson, Gumpertz & Hegergan Polymer design – Techmer PM Mars geochemistry – Dr. Scott McLennan, Stony Brook University Planetary physics – Dr. Philip Metzger, University of Central Florida Systems and civil engineering – Dr.
