An ASU initiative is driving innovation by providing seed funding to advance discoveries and technological innovation that paves the way for humans’ interplanetary future through science and engineering progress that is also benefiting society today. Among promising contributors to that progress is Oswald Chong, an associate professor in the School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment, part of the Fulton Schools, who leads the Lunar Minimum Viable Infrastructure pilot project team in its efforts to develop systems for establishing and sustaining human presence on the Moon. This and other projects bring together faculty from ASU and other universities, industry experts, government professionals and undergraduate and graduate students.