moon_camp

Moon Camp Explorers Gallery 2020-2021

In Moon Camp Explorers each team’s mission is to 3D design a complete Moon Camp using Tinkercad. They also have to explain how they will use local resources, protect astronauts from the dangerous of space and describe the living and working facilities.

Team: Proyecto Mercury

IES La Campiña  Guadalcacín (Cádiz)    Spain 14

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Project description

Our lunar camp is called Katherine Johnson, we have chosen this name in honor to the woman who helped with the Apollo 11 calculations and for which we can have a successful mission. With this, we want to claim the rights of women, and women in science, in addition to the rights of black people.

Our base is equipped with a kitchen, two bathrooms, two rooms for a total of 20 astronauts, a meeting room (also used as a living room), a greenhouse, two warehouses, a control room from where the camp will be controlled, and a garage where the two vehicles with which the astronauts will travel when they are completing the mission for which they have been sent to the moon, the collection of rocks and lunar elements in order to describe more accurately their composition and probability that it has been or can be habitable in case of having to leave the Earth due to excess of pollution. In addition, our ship has a gravity system and its semicircular shape will provide us the necessary protection against the winds.

Where do you want to build your Moon Camp?

Shackleton crater

Why did you choose this location?

We have chosen this location because here the radiation is lower compared to other areas. Moreover, considering that our source of energy is the photovoltaic panels, the angle with which the sun reflects off the panels suits us. Being located inside a crater, it has greater protection from the temperature fluctuations that together with the insulators located on all the walls will make our base a place with temperatures acceptable for humans and it is closer to the water source than we will use.

How do you plan to build your Moon Camp? Which materials would you use?

Our lunar camp will be built on the Earth, shipped on the rocket, and fixed on the Moon once the astronauts arrive. One of its layers is made of Teflon, a non-stick material, slippery and resistant to high temperatures thanks to the injection molding shaping technique. It will also have a layer of anodized aluminum, very resistant to radiation. The piping system will be manufactured with polyvinyl chloride, with the extrusion method. Some of the base elements will be manufactured with Bakelite and Melanin thermoset plastics.

Explain how your Moon Camp will provide the astronauts with:
Water
Food
Electricity
Air

We will obtain water through a machine in charge of extracting blocks of ice from an underground glacial on the Moon. Later, it will be filtered through osmosis, which, unlike other chemical processes, traps the particles by making them pass through a series of meshes or concentric membranes of different sizes. The filtered water will be distributed throughout the building by a sophisticated plumbing system located in the walls of the base.

The food will be obtained from the Earth, from where it would be transported to the Moon in the same spacecraft as the astronauts. Despite having enough food until the end of the mission and having extra supplies, among the canned food, there are seeds that will be grown in the greenhouse that will work with sunlight, and the compost will be the waste of the astronauts from the base. These plants will not only serve to feed, but they will also produce a considerable amount of oxygen.

Much of our energy will be provided by photovoltaic panels, which in addition to having a great energy power, they will make our stay on the moon non-polluting. As a reinforcement of these solar panels, we will have one of the most common gases on the Moon, which is helium. Through a process of nuclear fusion when joining the H3 molecule, the heavy hydrogen molecule decomposes and we get helium, so this process would emit a large amount of energy and at the same time it would continue working without being too polluting for the moon.

Part of the air would be obtained from the photosynthesis of the plants in our greenhouse, among which we will have two of the plants that emit the greatest amount of oxygen: chrysanthemums (exclusively decorative in appearance), and bamboo (used in the kitchen in some countries). We would also include filters that would use the oxygen cylinders brought from the Earth to oxygenate the air previously filtered from the lunar atmosphere and moistened.

Describe a day on the Moon for one of your Moon Camp astronauts

Our camp will follow a clear order of rotation. At 6:30 the astronauts will wake up thanks to an alarm system. They will continue with a hygiene process to later arrive to breakfast. Time after this, a group of 10 astronauts will work on the study of the samples previously taken from the lunar surface in the workshop, another 5 astronauts will go out with the rovers in search of the collection of lunar elements. Among them there will always be a doctor in case of something happened. The 5 remaining astronauts will take over the greenhouse tasks.

At noon, the 5 astronauts in charge of the greenhouse will proceed to prepare the food, since lunch will be at 2 in the afternoon. After that, the astronauts will have 1 hour to play sports, watch TV or do whatever activity they want. After this short break, the tasks assigned to each astronaut will change and they will continue with the day until 6 in the afternoon, when everyone will go to the gym until 7, when those who want to can leave the gym and take a break. Dinner will be at 9 p.m., and at 10:30 p.m. all the astronauts will have to go to bed.

The schedule of each astronaut will vary depending on the day, but Sundays always will be dedicated exclusively to cleaning the base until noon. After this time they will be able to do their favorite activity.


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