So far as I know, not many people from my generation want to be astronauts. It used to be the other way around; everybody wanted to be an astronaut. While getting strapped to a giant rocket and shot into space sounds appealing, living in cramped quarters with a half-dozen other human beings for months on end doesn’t sound like much fun.
NASA engineers have, however, figured out how to maximize space and efficiency, and those efforts could help us down here on earth. One NASA engineer took his expertise and built himself a funky little travel trailer called the Cricket.