Our Moon base is designed for two astronauts. It is designed so astronauts can live on the moon for months without resupplies. It has all the necessary items that the two people need to survive. For example, food, water, electricity, air, shelter and protection. Our goal is to ensure that our Moon base is safe to live on and that astronauts are protected from meteors and radiation. The astronauts wouldn’t be able to survive at all if they weren’t able to produce water, air, food, or energy. 

It would be expensive to transport food and water for months. The astronauts will be able to grow fruits and vegetables in a greenhouse to provide themselves with the food they need. We will use solar panels to produce all the power the Moon base needs and have sufficient batteries as backup and for emergencies. With rovers we will be able to collect ice water. We will melt the ice water and filter it to provide astronauts drinking water and water for plants. The plants that we grow will provide breathable air for the astronauts. We will also extract oxygen from regolith.

Close to the Lunar Poles

We will build our Moon camp near the South Pole. There’s a good supply of sunlight there which the astronauts can use to their advantage. Having good sunlight means that it will be easy to get electricity for the Moon camp. The South Pole also has the most water and has cold traps that contain ancient water ice to use for researching the origin of the moon. We will melt, filter and process the water to use for drinking, propellant and oxygen

We will build our Moon base using rovers that will 3D print the above ground structure using regolith. For the underground living facilities, we will use inflatable structures. The inflatable structures will be designed to fit within the lava tube and will be puncture resistant. The inflatable structures will be covered with 3D printed regolith bricks. Each room will be made using an inflatable structure and then connected together so that the astronauts can travel from room to room.

We produce water by melting ice located in crater of the south pole. Rovers will extract the ice water, melt it and transport it to a processing station where it will be filtered and processed to use for drinking, air and energy.

Harneet Needs to rewrite this section to explain how some food will be grown on the moon.
Imagine you are going to space and you are spending an entire year stuck there and you think to your self, “Oh man I really wish I could eat my mom’s homemade turkey or soup or I wish I could eat Panda Express or scrambled eggs for breakfast.” Any food can be freeze dried so we will provide astronauts with their favorite food. Freeze dried food don’t go bad quickly either like normal food.

We will generate electricity using solar panels placed on the rim of the Shackleton crater where the sun shines constantly. We will use solar panels to collect solar energy required to power the moon base. We will protect the solar panels from meteors showers with transparent shields so the sunlight can pass through them. We will use batteries as a backup just in case the shields fail to protect the panels during a large meteor shower.

We will get oxygen by using water plants such as algae and spirulina. To supply air to just one person we will need about 8 square meters of only algae and spirulina. We can also use any other plant but they require a bit more maintenance and space. These plants are an amazing option for air because they also provide food. Regolith is another option for providing oxygen. We will not use regolith because it takes a ton of work to extract and heat up. We will get shipments of air from Earth as back up.

When I wake up at 7:00 a.m. the first thing I do is go to the bathroom to brush my teeth and freshen up. Next I go down to the first floor to check on the lab samples of a rock from the hottest part of the moon I put in a freezer to see if any reactions happen. After I go to the second floor and work out for 2 hours, then eat my breakfast and shower. Before my partner and I leave the base we put on our suit that was specially designed to keep us safe. Today we are waiting on a rocket to arrive that contains some food, air, and a container to put our waste in and send back to Earth. The rocket arrives early. My team and I send out a rover to collect what the rocket has brought us. When the rover returns to the base we unload it. One of my partners gets our waste and loads it to ship it back home. I handle the food and some else gets the air. I contact earth and tell them we got the supplies and it was ready to send back. This takes up most of our day so.  We all do one more workout. After we all had dinner we go up to the 4th floor to relax. Before bed I do one final check on the lab samples.