Anita is a Systems Engineer with over 30 years of experience on the Space Shuttle program. Her area of expertise is Payload and Cargo Integration; her specialty is simplification of processes for future space vehicles, payloads, and ground operations. She holds three U.S. patents for technologies related to payload interface standardization. With husband Dick Edwards, she has conducted Space Settlement Design Competitions for high school students for over 20 years, now involving teams on six continents; Anita prepares background information and establishes design challenges for participants. She is a member of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Space Colonization Technical Committee; she and Dick co-author papers on space settlement requirements and technologies, and co-chair sessions on Space Colonization at technical conferences. Anita and Dick live in Nassau Bay, Texas, near Johnson Space Center in Houston. Anita advises 4Frontiers on space settlement requirements development.