Our Moon Camp has a total of three floors.  The bottom floor labeled  “Living Area” contains the rooms for everyday living. It includes areas such as sleeping, exercise, waste storage/restroom, food/water storage, rehydration, and cargo. The middle floor labeled  “Studying Area” contains areas for researching the moon and it’s environment. It includes areas such as communications, lab, greenhouse, oxygen filter, and a fish tank. The top floor has an Airlock and is the only floor that is on the surface. It’s the area for exiting the camp and contains solar powered batteries and backup generators, space suits, and telescope. Near the Airlock will be where the rovers for transporting the astronauts are stored. The rovers will help us construct the pipeline that will be connected to the ice in craters including the one our camp is located by.

Close to the Lunar Poles

The Philolaus Crater has several underground lava tube skylights and is located near the Moons North Pole. Our team decided to locate our Moon Camp Base here because it has a natural rocky barrier from radiation and meteorites. Both of the Moon’s Poles contains around 660 Million Tons of frozen water each. Since the base is underground we will make a pipeline from the base to the North Pole for water. We also decided on locating it here because  it’s close to areas that always have sunlight. We can place several solar panels on these ”24/7 Sunlight” areas and connect them with wires to our base.

HIVHC plans on using a 3D printing rover to build our moon camp inside the Philolaus crater. We are using a 3D printing rover because it is less expensive and faster than sending building materials to the moon. Our base has 3 floors. Two floors will be built underground and one floor above ground. An airlock  brought to the moon will be joined to the above ground 3D printed moon camp floor.

Both poles have approximately 661 million tons of water, but we are using the North Poles water because it is the closest to our base. In some impact craters of the north pole there is ice water. We will send rovers to collect and melt the ice water for us. The rovers are going to have a scoop to help it collect the water ice and an oven to melt it. We’ll use a water circulation system that filters the water and carries the water to our underground base.

We will grow cucumbers, strawberries, and green beans. Green beans are a good source of vitamin A and C, they also contain iron and folate. Strawberries have a good amount of folate and may have benefits for heart health and blood sugar control. Lastly cucumbers promote hydration, high in nutrients. We’ll use hydroponics to grow our plants. The plants will also produce oxygen for the astronauts to breathe and live on the moon.

Our main source of electricity will be sunlight. We will have backup batteries to use when there is no sunlight or we lose power. We will also use fuel cells that use water.

We will supply astronauts with oxygen by growing algae or spirulina because they provide oxygen. For one person to get enough oxygen from the algae we need approximately 8 square meters of algae. Not only algae can make oxygen , regolith can also make oxygen but it’s a long and difficult process to make it breathable for astronauts. The best possible way to get oxygen is from algae because you can eat it as well.

A day on the moon requires an astronaut to exercise as much as possible because there isn’t much gravity there meaning they don’t use their body as much. Once they finish eating breakfast they need to exercise. Once a good amount of exercise has been completed they leave to check on all equipment
they depend to survive. Once finished  they do experiments until lunch. Rovers will be sent to gather samples.  After this they do as any normal person does, they brush their teeth and go to sleep.