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: Moon Watchers

Primary School No. 3 in Puławy  Puławy    Poland 14

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Project description

Our lunar base called National space station 2000 is a single dome, that is covered on the outside with transparent glass,
very thick and resistant to meteorite impacts and Moon surface quakes. The entrance leading to the base is a small and narrow corridor made of glass also used to make the dome. The door to the corridor is made from heavy, thick and hard metal. Inside of the lunar base are four storeys. The topmost storey is a room for testing samples and fluids collected during the passage of a lunar rover. There is a telescope for amateur space exploration for the crew living on the moon. On the floor below there is a kitchen and a few tables surrounding the kitchen island. Behind the wall there is a library to expand your knowledge by reading. On the main floor there is a toilet which ensures the daily
hygiene of those who live there. Next to this room there is a gym to exercise the muscles and prevent their wasting. Beside the gym is an office intended for work. The last room on this floor is a storage room to keep all the necessary items needed to survive on the moon. In this room the last things are the entrance and wardrobe for the space suits. On the last floor placed below the surface of the moon there is a big bedroom for the astronauts.

Where do you want to build your Moon Camp?

Shackleton crater

Why did you choose this location?

We would like to build our Moon camp on the Shackleton crater. It is an impact crater that lies at the south pole of the Moon. We chose this site because the peaks along the rim of the crater are exposed to almost continuous sunlight, while the interior is always in shadow. The low-temperature interior of this crater acts as a cold trap that can trap and freeze volatiles that are released when a comet hits the Moon. Lunar Prospector measurements showed higher than normal amounts of hydrogen in the crater, which may indicate the presence of water ice. All these advantages will contribute to improving the life of astronauts on the Moon.

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

To build our space base, we will use a large amount of gypsum powder, which we will take with us from Earth, to make the plaster ready for use, we will use the natural resources from the Moon such as water from the craters. The next material will be cement, and like gypsum, will need water. The last material will be glass also obtained from Earth in order to seal the center of the base tightly. This glass, however, will not be ordinary, it will be the thickest and most durable glass produced to protect astronauts from meteorite impacts.

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

In order to have water, astronauts must use the local resources from the Moon in the form of ice in the craters. In order to get water from ice, astronauts use machines constructed on the Earth that turn ice into liquid. By putting solid state water-ice into the machine, the heating sensors melt the ice and create water.

In order to have food, which is the most important source of energy for humans, on Earth they had to stock up on large supplies of food and sterilize food in sealed packages to suck out unnecessary water, which would quickly spoil and rot the food. When the supplies run out, the astronauts send a signal to the lab technicians watching them from Earth to send them another food supply in a small rocket that would fly to the Moon, leave food behind, and fly away, controlled by laborers, on Earth.

Energy that is a physical quantity, allowing to live andpowering equipment is very necessary for astronauts in space
because it allows them to supply the base and light needed for basic life activit ies, therefore astronauts draw energy from solar panels mounted on the surface of the moon facing the highest solar radiation. The processed energy goes to the wires and feeds the base.

Air is a mixture of gases necessary for human life and functioning in the natural environment. Air consists of many chemicals, mainly oxygen. Oxygen is produced in greenhouses near the space base and then stored in large tanks that discharge the oxygen produced in the greenhouse to the base. To nourish the plants, the carbon dioxide exhaled and collected by discharge pipes ending in greenhouses is absorbed by the plants and converted into oxygen.

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

Astronaut’s day is full of surprises and discoveries, an adventure that begins with a reveille at 7:00 am. When the astronaut gets up, his training begins at 7:30 am and ends at 8:30 am. Training is a very necessary activity because it stimulates the muscles to work for the whole day. Then the astronaut eats breakfast. Somewhere at 9 a.m.
his work begins, sending a rover to take samples from the Moon’s surface. While the rover is working, the astronaut has free time in which he checks the food supplies remaining in the pantry and waters the plants in the greenhouse. When the rover finishes its part of the task at 11:00 the astronaut goes with the samples to the chemical laboratory to take swabs of the collected particles. His work in the laboratory usually ends at 1.30 p.m., so the astronaut goes to
lunch at the canteen where his colleague who was to prepare lunch that day is already serving a meal. Talks and feasts often end around 3 p.m. and then he leaves the base and transforms the moon ice into water. He usually ends at 4 p.m. and then goes to rest by reading books. At 6 p.m. free time ends, and you must go down and help prepare dinner. After eating dinner, it is usually 7 p.m., which is the time for the last check if everything is fine in the base, washing
yourself and going to sleep to rest for the next day.


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