Larry Toups
Adjunct Associate Professor
Space Architecture Graduate Program

Larry Toups is currently in the Exploration Mission Planning Office at Johnson Space Center supporting the agency’s Evolvable Mars Campaign work. He joined NASA in 1994 and worked in the International Space Station (ISS) Program Office. From 1998-2006 Mr. Toups assumed the role of Habitability Systems Lead in the ISS Vehicle Office. Prior joining NASA Larry was a Senior Engineer with Lockheed Engineering and Sciences Company at Johnson Space Center. In this role, he provided technical support for JSC’s New Initiatives Office in the area of Systems Engineering of habitats and planetary systems and contributed to numerous NASA studies. Mr. Toups assumed the position of Adjunct Professor at Chalmers University, Sweden in addition to his NASA responsibilities. In this role he has been involved with research related to sustainability of terrestrial homes of the future and the linkage of that research to deep space habitation. Larry Toups earned a BArch degree and after practicing architecture for 14 years, a Master’s Degree from the University of Houston.