moon_camp

Moon Camp Explorers Gallery 2019-2020

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: Criativos

Scholé  Matosinhos    Portugal

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Project description

Our mooncamp will be placed in the south pole because of the temperatures and ice. At the surface we will have a greenhouse, a telescope, solar panels, antennas to communicate with the Earth and underground it will have a bedroom with three  beds, a kitchen, bathroom (small because the astronauts shower using wipes and dry shampoo), a living room, a gym with a pool and a library.

Where do you want to build your Moon Camp?

Close to the Lunar Poles

Why did you choose this location?

We will build our lunar base at the south pole because it has more water and because the temperatures are more pleasant (between -50oC and 0oC).  We also chose the south pole because we have more sun light. It is going to be built inside a lava tube to protect ourselves from meteorites. Most of the house will be underground. The underground part will have bedrooms, a gym, a living room, a laboratory, a library, a bathroom, a kitchen and a communication room. The part that is not underground will have solar panels, a see-through shield, an antenna, a telescope and a place for the rockets to land.

Water
Food
Electricity
Air

We can produce water by removing ice from the poles that we then have to filter. To produce enough water to use, we would have to take too much ice. So, the moon ice is not enough! This means we also need to filter urine with a water filtration/recycling water that can also filter water from the garden and recycle the water from the breathing.

I would take vegetables, fruits and seeds to the mooncamp because they are foods that we can plant. We could not take all kinds of fruit since the trees could not grow in our shelter. We prefer to take beetroot, cabbage, wheat and rice because this, even if it needs a lot of water is nutritious, easy to store and we can use it in several ways. We also have carrots and tomatoes, because they are foods that are healthy and help astronauts get the nutrients they need.

On the moon we will resort to solar energy. For this we will use solar panels and we will place at the poles of the Moon, because in this zone there is a higher incidence of sunlight. These panels would be placed in cube/turtle shape to be exposed to sun even if the Moon moves relative to the sun.
In case there’s an eclipse, we need high-powered batteries that charge with solar power and help us keep the camp running while there’s no sunlight.

We will produce oxygen through plants or a cyanobacteria.
The best way to produce oxygen is to resort to spirulina. However, despite serving as a food, it does not have great nutritional value, so it is necessary to have other forms of food.
Therefore we must be aware that for a person to have enough oxygen they need 8m2 of spirulina or 13m2 of other plants.

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

For the part that is above the ground we will use inflated materials and for the part underground we can use compacted lunar powder to build walls. We must have a rest area and a working area. It has also to have a greenhouse, a gym, a canteen, a garage, a small toilet (because they do not bath, they clean themselves with wipes and dry shampoo) and a living room.

The Moon environment is very dangerous for the astronauts. Explain how your Moon Camp will protect them.

On the moon we can face different risks. To survive, we need to know how we can protect ourselves. For this, against meteorites and radiation, we can build a polyethylene shield. Building double doors will protect our shelter from the dangers of vacuum and if we build a communication room, our astronauts can communicate with friends and family, thereby reducing homesickness.

To make them feel more at home and do not feel a lack of color, astronauts can choose the color of a wall in the shelter where they are going to live.

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

The activities of a day on the moon are storage, working out time, cooking, collecting ice, research work, leisure time, privacy time, collecting the moon materials, communication with the Earth, verification of solar panels, communication with the family, verification of rovers, verification of sensors, overviewing of the vegetable garden, maintenance of the shelter and some materials and verification of the filtering systems.

Each astronaut rests between six to seven hours and there are never two astronauts resting at the same time because someone is always working.


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