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 dangers of space and describe the living and working facilities in their Moon Camp.
Pinewood American International School Thessaloniki Thessaloniki-Thessaloniki Greece 13 0 / 2 English
Our project is an advanced Moon camp that will contain Protection, Water, Food, Oxygen and Electricity. I will explain about how we will achieve these things afterwards in this report card. Our Moon camp’s name is “Lunar Heaven”. Luna is the Moon, which the camp is located on, and heaven is a calm place, a peaceful one with not much noise, and that’s the goal that our team wants to achieve. The Moon camp will have natural resources that are produced from the moon, resources from Earth that the spaceship will bring with it while the spaceship is on the way to the Moon.
Our moon base was conceived and designed to ensure the safety of astronauts. In addition to their safety, our base offers a pleasant environment where they can live normally with everything they need. It will have all the important rooms (Bedroom, bathroom etc.), but it will also have a gym the astronauts can use. With all of the rooms and the bathrooms, our Moon camp will have a lot of resources, natural resources and resources from Earth.
When they are on our moon base they will feel at home.
Shackleton crater
The Shackleton crater is a protected place: This is because it is 4 km deep which could protect the base from any meteors, radiation, and cosmic rays. It has two parts; one which is dark and one which has sunlight all year. We will get energy from solar panels, which we get from direct sunlight all year around. With the energy and the water we can get from the pole close to us. We can grow plants, and they can help us produce oxygen. The green house will be inside so we will create artificial sunlight with some of the energy from the solar panels. On the South Pole there is ice which will be melted into water. Some of this water will go to watering the plants. This is the biggest and closest water reserve.
From the Moon, the most important thing we need is the crater to be stable for us to drill in it and to build the Moon camp inside of it, without the crater collapsing on us (the Moon camp). Our goal is to build the moon camp with a 3D printer. The material which the thin lines of the 3D printer will be made of regolith. Regolith is the material the moon camp will be made of.
The Moon Camp will provide safety for astronauts. The camp will protect them from meteors, radiation, and cosmic rays. I will build the exterior of the base with layers and “regolith” material to fully protect the base. The base would also need to be fully compacted with no air coming in or out so the entrance needs air locks. We will also drill into the crater to create a cave to build the camp in there for more guaranteed safety from meteors.
Water: The water will be provided through the ice caps at the South Pole which is the largest amount of water They can be purified in the drink and for other uses. There is also water at the bottom of the crater.
Food: The greenhouse will be underground so that it’s easier to access the food. The artificial sunlight will be powered by the solar panels and there will be automatic watering, so you can work without distractions.
Power: We will place solar panels on craters’ cliff to get energy for greenhouse and everything else
Air: The moon camp will provide air by vents on the ceiling. We will use the oxygen from the plants. There will be pipes underground which will provide water to the plants. There will be artificial sunlight for the plants.
In space gravity pull is no longer working and a lot of systems in the body get out of balance. Astronauts in the first days on the Space Station we see their puffy face because blood and liquid- lymph liquid gets pulled upwards towards the head until the body regulates this and normalizes the blood pressure again. This is an adaptation mechanism that happens only in space, it needs to be reregulate once astronauts are coming back to Earth. This also happens with muscles and bones. Therefore, astronauts need to train every day to maintain and to remind the systems to keep all these functionalities. Muscle and bone need to be worked and need to be trained in order to be strong to maintain strength. So even on Earth if you don’t work the muscles it impacts your health, and in space this effect is much stronger.
