Off-World / Extreme Environment Habitat Certification

Core capability

Designing, testing, and verifying a habitat capable of sustaining human life in an environment that actively wants to kill it (e.g., the Marianas Trench, Lunar surface, or Mars).

What this replaces

Aerospace Architecture and Deep-Sea Engineering.

Verification threshold

The physical prototype survives the extreme environmental simulation for 72 hours with zero loss of internal atmospheric pressure, resulting in an official certification from the partner agency.