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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: 3B

Scuola Secondaria di primo grado G. Galilei, Barlassina  Barlassina (MB)    Italy 14

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Project description

This project was created by class 3B of Barlassina (Italy).
It’s divided into four parts connected to each other by four corridors. The shape is that of a perimeter of a square with inside another structure that will cover the greenhouse. The corners of the perimeter have the shape of a semisphere with inside a fundamental aspect of life on the moon: an organic laboratory, an inorganic laboratory, a living area and a sleeping area; the 4 corridors have a semi cylindrical shape and cover the role of locker room, control and communication center, warehouses and gym-waste. Each semisphere is connected to a special corridor: the living area with the dressing room, the sleeping area with the gym corridor and waste the laboratory of organic research with warehouses, the inorganic research laboratory with the control center and the greenhouse, which is located in the center of the structure is connected to the corridors of the locker room and warehouse.
In every semisphere and in every corridor there are all the fundamental elements based on the needs of man in this kind of environment, for example, in the living area there is a sofa, a table to eat with chairs and a kitchen complete with everything you need to heat, thaw and refreeze food; in the laboratories there are various locations to examine the composition of the moon and its elements and in the sleeping area there is everything you need to sleep.

Where do you want to build your Moon Camp?

Close to the Lunar Poles

Why did you choose this location?

In 2017, NASA detected extremely cold areas on the moon. It was assumed, soon after confirmed, that there might be ice on the surface. The poles are in fact cold areas, where temperatures remain well below 100 º C, far from the areas illuminated by the Sun, for this reason they say it’s rich of ice, brought by ancient comets, so we thought about placing our base at the poles to get water to use during daily life.

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

The main module will be divided into 4 probes containing a corridor folded in two to form a cylinder. At the moment of the landing they will be arranged and will open forming a square apparently not united by the vertices. Then domes (technopolymers) will swell from one exit of each corridor , to join the square . When the astronauts land they will inflate another dome in the center of the square to form the greenhouse.Then I will use 3D printers working with earthy material and cover the dome of the field,for protection.More will be set up a field of photovoltaic and solar panels

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

We could use a urine filter, composed of a few elements, connected to the toilets, once collected the urine passes through filters that turn it into drinking water. Most oxygen can be obtained by electrolysis which serves to separate a compound by electric current, and are inserted into a container containing water with two electrodes connected to the two poles of the battery. Positive ions will be attracted by the electrode negatives, while negative will be attracted by the positive electrode. Once the electrodes are reached the substances are discharged forming hydrogen, and oxygen.

In the first months you will have to eat food brought from the ground, and the best method of storing food is vacuum that consists in sucking air from the food container, the food is packaged in disposable packages, the packages must be easy to dispose of.
The greatest advantage is the possibility of long-term preservation of food.
In the following months will begin to grow fruit and vegetables through hydroponic cultivation, with the hydroponic cultivation you can grow lettuce, zucchini and potatoes. Salt and sugar cannot be used because they could end up in ducts.

For energy, solar panels will be used to heat the water and solar photovoltaic panels to produce energy.
Both use solar energy, but in a completely different way: Solar panels convert solar radiation into thermal energy, which can be transferred to a thermal accumulator for later use.
While photovoltaic solar panels instead use solar radiation to produce electricity.
This occurs through several photovoltaic cells connected to each other, made up of silicon, capable of converting photons, through a physical reaction, into an electric field in direct current.
You can have an ecological choice: photovoltaics are renewable and clean energy.

Most oxygen can be obtained by electrolysis. That process is used to separate a compound by electric current. To avoid the accumulation of toxic substances special carbon filters may be used.
A recent ESA study found that the lunar soil is composed of forty percent oxygen, so you could extract oxygen from the surface to be able to breathe. Another source in case of need is definitely the supply from the ground via a spaceship

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

The typical day of an astronaut on the lunar territory is totally upset by the terrestrial one, in fact the duration of the day alternates with that of the night every 15 days, so a man will no longer be able to orient himself based on the usual solar day. To orient themselves, astronauts follow a very strict timetable, taking Greenwich Mean Time as a reference point: 6:00 AM: Beginning of the day, with personal hygiene being a fundamental thing, no longer having one’s usual immune system, breakfast and control of the messages received during the past night; 7:30 AM: Planning of the day, achieved by the teleconference with the land base; 8:00 AM: Preparation of daily work to be performed and review of space base procedures; 8:30 AM: There will be a first shift, consisting of satellite searches on the lunar territory; 10: 30-11: 30 AM: Morning gymnastic training 12:00 AM: Lunch 1:00 PM: There will be a second shift where the searches performed in the morning shift will be finished and rechecked; 6:30 PM: Preparing the moon base for the night 7:30 PM: Briefing for the following day, report of the day with the terrestrial office 8:30 PM: Dinner and free time 9:30 PM. Preparation for the night (personal hygiene etc ..) 22:00 PM: The lights go out.


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