The senses are
life support.
In orbit, taste dulls, smell stagnates, appetite collapses and mood follows. Space Sensory Lab designs the sensory layer of off-world habitats — and brings every discovery back to Earth.
Nothing we build for orbit stays in orbit.
In space
As humanity moves to orbital and lunar habitats, the sensory environment becomes a vital extension of the life-support system.
On Earth
Every insight developed for microgravity accelerates solutions for people already struggling to eat, sleep, heal and feel at home.
For partners, that means one investment with two returns: funding the future of human experience in space while unlocking scalable applications that improve life here.
What operators engage us to do.
The Sensory Frontier Report™ & strategic consulting
The codex every operator needs before building or launching anything — a category-defining framework backed by decades of real sensory science.
The intelligence layer a strategy firm would sell you — with the science actually behind it.
Sensory science, crew profiling & human adaptation research
The rigorous groundwork operators rely on to design safe, joyful, high-performance living in orbit, on the Moon, or on Mars.
The factual backbone for every blueprint, framework and roadmap we develop.
Daily life systems: habitat experience, fitness & mental wellbeing
We translate science into the architecture of daily life — the routines that sustain performance, identity and joy.
We help people live well when everything familiar has been stripped away.
F&B, flavor, cooking systems, nutrition & functional hydration
We rebuild the culinary experience for suppressed-sense environments, where flavor, appetite and mood all behave differently.
Restore deliciousness and pleasure — even when nothing tastes the way it should.
Hygiene, personal care & mission-ready product development
The personal systems that keep humans feeling human in extreme environments.
Hygiene and self-care anchor dignity — the quiet essentials of civilization.
A turnkey pathway from concept to mission.
Olfaction Beyond Gravity: human scent experience in space
On Earth, scent rises and disperses. In microgravity it does neither — and the sense that reads it stops working the way it should.
Global leadership team
Human experience & clinical integration
CEO and co-founder of WTSA. Connects research on altered perception in extreme environments to formulation strategy, product development and habitat sensory design.
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Partnerships & F&B innovation
Two decades across marketing, sales and brand strategy. Director of Growth at Voyager Technologies and the only industry leader actively writing alcohol policy for space.
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Feasibility & operations
Commercialization strategist and New Space advisor across the US, EU and Asia — including an ISS-flown space-food venture.
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Sensory tech & innovation
Interdisciplinary Ph.D. in technology and HCI. Works at the front edge of sensory design, futures foresight and measurable innovation in experience systems.
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Operators, primes, funders and research institutions: tell us what you are building and we will scope the sensory work it needs.
Make an impact today
SSL is funded through WTSA, a women-led 501(c)(3). Every contribution moves sensory science forward — in orbit and in the clinic.
Contributions are tax-deductible to the fullest extent allowed by law. Federal Tax ID 88-190-2767.Space Sensory Lab is a program of the World Taste & Smell Association — a women-led 501(c)(3) advancing taste and smell health as a public-health priority.