Project Highlight: Super Van
I have always wanted to live on a spaceship. While science fiction has granted us plenty of excellent star fighter designs like Luke Skywalker’s X-Wing from Star Wars, or Starbuck’s Viper from Battlestar Galactica, the best spaceships are the ones that double as houses. From Star Wars we have the Millennium Falcon, or the Razor Crest, or the Ghost (watch Rebels). Firefly gave us Serenity. You can visit any planet in the solar system in the Rocinante from the Expanse. I have more, but I should get to the actual project. These vehicles are obviously out of reach for at least another twenty years (let me have this), but today we’re gonna talk about a project that might satisfy that same desire for freedom and self sufficiency. A van! Eve Boulanger (a biomedical engineer) and Anton Kreinin (a mechanical engineer in the nuclear industry) have been hard at work taking a Mercedes-Benz Sprinter from a van to a tiny house on wheels. This project is Anton’s second van project, and definitely more ambitious. Taking the metal shell of a van and turning it into a living sp