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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: Moon Camp 2021

AE Pedro Eanes Lobato  Amora – Seixal    Portugal 9

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Project description

Our Moon Camp project was made thinking about every benefit that we, humans, can take from the moon.

This project was thought to take at least 3 astronauts for the first time, but after a few months, the camp will take many more astronauts.

Will have some accommodations and workrooms, such as bedrooms, bathrooms, living rooms, working labs, a solar and a nuclear power plant, a command center, a central main entrance, and a hydra loop that will take the astronauts to/ from the landing site.

We can forget the security of the place because there is no atmosphere on the moon, so we’ll have some meteors attacks, so we’ll have some defense laser towers to protect the moon camp. It’s important to have satellites that will help us to contact Earth and have communications and, search the Moon surface.

Where do you want to build your Moon Camp?

Lunar lava tubes

Why did you choose this location?

We know that the Moon is a dangerous place. It suffers from meteor attacks, radiation, and exposer to the sunlight for 14 days in a row, and because of this, its surface is too hot or too cold for human life to be safe. We cannot forget too that the gravity on the Moon is lower than on Earth.
If we build our camp in lunar lava tubes, it will improve the quality of life of the astronauts.

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

Arriving on the moon a deployable module’ll be launched to set the perimeter where the astronauts’ll work from.

This module’ll be covered with moon dust with the help of 3D printers made for that purpose. Every single material sent to the moon in this mission’ll be integrated into the shelter.

The main materials’ll be mined on the moon, such as rocks, moon dust, and found minerals.

It is very important to find a safe place to build the first module, and we think that the best place is inside a crater. This work’ll be made with the help of rovers.

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

Astronauts will take the first drinking water to the moon. With the help of a recycle machine their urine, sweat, and other body liquids will start to be recycled.
If the ice on the moon will prove to be drinkable, then after treatment, part of it will be storage too into containers to be distributed to all complexes.

On the first journey to the moon, the astronauts will take with them supplies so they can survive the first 90 to 180 months. They will bring some tolls to start a greenhouse and there, they will grow several seeds, using the method hydroponically. They also can do experiments with the green algae to have fresh nutrients at their disposal.

The Power on the site will be produced basically with a nuclear power plant.
We’ll have also a solar power plant with solar panels (that will be put in selected places at the beginning of the mission) that will capture the sunlight and stone the energy into big batteries to be distributed, through the 14 days of night, to the all complex.

We’ve learned that there is ice on the moon. The astronauts will mine that ice. Using the electrolysis of water, using that moon ice, it will turn hydrogen (H) and oxygen (O2) into water (H2O) and, storing its compounds into special containers, taking special measures.
Our greenhouse will have plants and algae that will reduce CO2 and produce oxygen (O2) that will help clean the breathable air.

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

One of the best things to do on the moon is to watch for a while the Planet Earth and let us amaze with its beauty.

We know that the time on the moon is not the same as that on Earth, so we will need to prepare a schedule that will be modified when needed. Although a day on the moon lasts for 14 days in a row, astronauts must rest, so their schedule will be like the hours on Earth.

The astronaut will wake up early to see the sun rising, he will take some pictures of it and will have his breakfast.

To start the morning, he’ll visit his experiments to make some registration on the evolution and make some adjustments. After that, he’ll go to work in the lab.

By lunchtime, he’ll have lunch with the other astronauts.

After lunch, he’ll go to the gym – because it’s important to keep his health (don’t forget that the gravity is lower here) – and he will go to the Solar power plant to check on the solar panels (clean them from the dust).

By the end of the day, he will have time to rest, but before sleep, he can take some quality time, calling home, or taking pictures, read a book, good to the swimming pool, or even play with the game machines. Astronauts must sleep and rest so they can not only enjoy the honor to be moon astronauts but also do their work well.


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