I was part of a multidisciplinary team in charge of assessing, renovating, and maintaining the legacy SEV to prepare it for this mission. The vehicle had not been updated for testing in over a decade, so our team sorted through documents and assessed existing hardware to make it habitable again. Astronauts lived, worked, and relaxed inside the vehicle for multiple days and nights, necessitating the need for renovating interior components. In particular, I worked on the water system, toilet, air conditioner, and a whole new adjustable arm rest design. We also designed and built new hardware to support mission objectives, such as a 5-screen “video wall” to support “drive by camera” operations.

During the mission itself, my team and I spent multiple weeks at the testing site maintaining the cabin and assisting the testing team and crew. Between mission segments, we would clean the interior and swap out hardware for different driving modes.