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.
Projects Club (mentored by Maria Neagoie) Bucharest-Romania Romania 11, 13 0 / 0 English
Our Moon Camp is designed to integrate spaces needed to cover all functionalities for a GREENHOUSE.
The main purpose is to make research to produce vegetables, fruits and various plants in a protected environment. For this purpose, we need specific experiments, robots equipped with tools for activities related to greenhouses.
The intention is to consider this first greenhouse as a pilot, and to use it to make others as well. This will lead to an increase in the plants production, and will assure a bigger quantity of food for more people to come on the Moon.
If a first team will go to the Moon and will show to the rest of the people on Earth that they can not only survive on the Moon, but also build a Moon Camp so useful for all of us, this will motivate more brave people to follow them on their mission.
Life as an Astronaut is hard but full of success, fulfillment and achievements. It is that kind of life when in any moment the history can be written, and new discoveries will be recognized as having an enormous impact for a better life on the Moon.
Close to the lunar poles
We aim to build our Moon Camp near the poles of the Moon. We chose that location because we always have natural sun light and we can grow plants there.
For living day by day on the Moon, it is needed to have special solar panels to obtain energy from sunlight, and special devices to extract oxygen from Moon soil, and to extract water using the ice from the Moon. When the plants will grow, the oxygen produced by them can be stored in special reservoirs and used in multiple purposes.
The Moon soil (regolith) can be used to create a substance which will be used as fuel for a 3D printer to create the buildings for the Moon Camp. This can be done remotely, by controlling the machines from Earth.
The main spaces built are:
Landing zone for the spacecrafts
Main entrance
Tunnels
Greenhouse for growing plants
Laboratory for experiments
Warehouse for water storage, energy batteries, oxygen reservoirs, different machineries
Living area (including library, gym, bedrooms, bathrooms and dining room)
The roof of the greenhouse has two functionalities for creating the day-night cycle as on Earth. For 12 hours the surface of the roof is transparent, and for the next 12 hours the roof is changing the texture and is becoming opaque.
All materials used to build the moon camp are strong enough to resist to an eventual impact from a meteorite. Moreover, we provide special equipment for keeping the temperature constant inside the camp.
The food for the people staying in the camp is covered at the beginning from Earth, and, after six months, it is expected to be provided 50% from Earth and 50% from the greenhouse, and the percentage for the local production will increase to 80% after another six months.
Each day, an astronaut takes care of his own duties, but also is responsible to be safe and healthy.
A special program is followed to assure sleeping hours and physical training every day. This is needed not just to be in shape, but also to perform experiments on oneself and to track each vital physical and mental health parameter.
The astronauts should have a good physical condition to be able to fulfill their tasks on Moon as long as possible, for which purpose they are set to follow a 3-week training program pre-flight.
Additionally, a special training will be needed to prepare them mentally for a new life and for what they will experience on the Moon.
What is more, they have to be encouraged with motivational speeches.
An important aspect can be to offer them a way to be in touch with their family remained on Earth, and to offer the possibility to make some trips back to Earth to visit their relatives.
