Designing for Space: Core77 visits NASA's Industrial Design Team

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Glen Jackson Taylor of Core77 visted NASA to profile the designers of the next manned lunar rover.

Evan Twyford and Carl Conlee are two of three industrial designers working in NASA's Habitability Design Center (HDC), and in just over 2 years they have transitioned the department from one that dealt only with small isolated ergonomic projects to working on arguably the most exciting project at NASA today—a next generation pressurized lunar rover. The thing is, NASA doesn't actually have an industrial design department. They don't even have a design department. Not technically, anyway…

Designing for Space: Core77 visits NASA's Industrial Design Team