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.
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Our camp is in the crater of Shackleton. It offers all the elements our astronauts need to live and work on the moon.
Our astronauts want to go to the moon to encourage women to go to the space. We want to make people understand that women can also lead expeditions into space . That’s why, the leader is a woman. Also they want to go to the moon because they want to experiment with the materials that are there or look for information and data that could be useful in the future. They go to see if the plants grow, but they also go there to experience what it would be like to live there. How
long can they last with the water and food they have.
Shackleton crater
Because the lunar camp will be located in a crater from which it will be possible to obtain water with advanced machinery capable of collecting and melting the ice in it, which will also facilitate the astronauts’ stay on the Moon, when feeding and providing it to the plants in the garden inside the base. In addition, this crater has a good location for its shape and
structure, being a fairly large space, and can be observed from the ground easily.
The lunar camp will be built with the help of high-tech surfaces previously made on planet Earth, which will be sent to a less advanced camp on the moon, where astronauts will pick up each surface and assemble it with a specialized tool kit with which they have already traveled. The lunar base will be delivered by means of rooms, propelled from rockets sent to the moon, and landed by remote control with the help of a parachute. The rover will be, like the lunar base, manufactured on Earth and sent from there to the camp, remotely controlled, also falling by parachute. From the moon, with the help of the rover and the astronauts, elements will be obtained from the asteroid, such as iron, titanium, or some rare materials.
And then, they will be taken to the laboratory of the lunar base. There, they will be researched and used for the internal development of the camp.
Our project consists of 6 sections of which we have divided them into two per person, being a total of three in the team.
Although we have done it separately when we had some doubts we have helped each other.
Our three sections are a rover, a lunar base, a satellite, a rocket, an astronaut, a lunar lander.
The rover is designed to explore new territories, move around the planets with ease, take samples from different tests and arenas…
The lunar base is designed to inhabit it, as it has dining rooms, garden rooms to get some food with an irrigation system implemented and laboratories to collect samples from the rover.
Our camp will have a dome around the entire camp made of: titanium which is a resistant and non-ferromagnetic material that will protect all the people who live inside it, in case they have to go outside the dome they will always have the space suits and oxygen pumps with which this would positively affect the camp as it would not attract space debris.
The lunar base will be made of ultra-high temperature ceramics which will help them survive the low temperatures.
Water and food will be supplied every month with enough bags and food to sustain the astronauts on the moon. However, food could also be taken from the orchard located on the lunar base.
Energy would be drawn from solar panels on sunny days.
Each astronaut will be prepared before having a mission on the moon by means of a quite strict physical training, in which their physical and motor capacities will be monitored every day with high capacity trainings and weekly examinations. With these, the astronauts will be able to prepare an ideal physique for the conditions they will be subjected to on the moon.
Strength and endurance will be prioritized, as well as flexibility.
Their cognitive area will also be studied, both spatial intelligence and emotional intelligence, which facilitate daily tasks in space in any field. And to increase them, they will be subjected to routine situations to test the development of these skills.
Finally, their training will also consist of tests in which they will be in zero gravity and low gravity in order to see their adaptation to the environment, to analyze changes in their physique and their responses to sudden changes in gravity.
