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: sopka

ZŠ Štefcova  Hradec Králové    Czech Republic

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Project description

Our base will consist of three domes. The largest of the domes will be the headquarters of the entire building. It will have two floors. There will be a research room on the upper floor with computers and other instruments. These devices will be used to capture the signal and solar energy. On the lower floor there will be an entrance to the base, a bathroom and a platform that acts as an elevator to the underground part of the base. From the central part of the surface, two tunnels will lead to the remaining dome. One will be on the far side and the other on the far side of the moon. The dome on the far side will be used to observe the stars. The second dome will be for growing and preserving food. There will be a panel for capturing solar energy.

There will be two floors in the underground part. To get astronauts underground and back in the tunnel between the surface above and below the surface of the platform. There will be two floors in the underground. The upper one will have a dining room and a living room. In the lower turn gym and sleeping room. 

 

Where do you want to build your Moon Camp?

Close to the Lunar Poles

Why did you choose this location?

Our base will be halfway across the far (remote) side of the moon near the North Pole. It will be at the pole because of favorable temperatures. The central part should also be located on a small crater that will facilitate deepening for the construction of the underground part of the base. This place should offer ideal conditions for building a base and for the life of astronauts.

 

Water
Food
Electricity
Air

As there is no ground water on the moon, fresh water will have to be imported as needed. Water basins will be placed along the base. they will be needed in the gym, dining room and main dome. Therefore, astronauts will have access to water when needed.

Fresh food will be grown in one of the cupolas. It will be mostly vegetables. On this dome will be placed panels to capture solar energy for cultivation. Special lights will be placed above the vegetables. There will be oxygen and a tank of water to water the food. There will also be an apparatus for measuring ideal plant conditions. This (vegetable) is then washed and stored in the kitchen with the dining room so that it can be further prepared for lunch. Other food eg meat will be placed in canned food in the kitchen.

Our two astronauts will have enough computer skills. Powerful machines will be used to investigate temperatures on the moon, soil composition or craters. Everything will be examined in the main dome. Stars from the observation dome will also be explored. The base will generally be equipped with machines to help astronauts from these investigations. However, so that cosmonauts do not spend all their time researching, they will have the opportunity, for example, to strengthen or relax in the underground

At least two oxygen bottles shall be placed in each room. In the event of trouble, there will be a “reservoir” of oxygen bottles in the main dome. As astronauts study the surroundings, they wear a protective suit that has an oxygen bottle on their backs. If oxygen in one of the rooms runs out, an alarm will be reported in the main dome, which means that all rooms will close automatically within seven seconds.

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

As our base will be built on the moon, there will have to be a special layer of hard material underneath it that will have to be transported for a month. The entire base will be made of some stable metal or material that will be grounded into plates that are transported by the rocket for a month and assembled there in a dome. Each dome will be made of this material. Even the tunnels between the dome and the underground part. After erection, the entire base will be covered with a sufficiently thick layer of regolith to the main entrance, windows, panels and binoculars from the observation dome.

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

Our base will be protected not only by the layer of material from which the base is built, or by the layer of regolith, as we mentioned before. He will have a safety evacuation facility. One of the panels will have a “camera” connected to the computer, which can be seen a few hours ahead of the meteor approaching the base. However, the telescope in the observation room will also serve for this purpose. In case of danger, astronauts will know in time.

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

Every morning, the astronaut wakes up and rides the platform to the next floor where the dining room is. He can have breakfast in peace to prepare for the day. After breakfast he goes to the central part of the bathroom. Next, he goes to the top floor of the main dome to check the computers and turn on the panels. When everything is all right, in an oxygen bomb suit, he can go out for a regolith sample for today’s research. The sample will bring back to the computers. Before examining, he checks the dome with food to make sure the panels are working and the vegetables are growing well. After that he can go back to research. When the tests are complete, it writes the information to the computer. Now he has time to go to the bathroom or have a drink. Then we go to the observation room for the stars and the sun. Now he just checks the temperature and conditions outside. Again he has time to use for a good lunch in the dining room. After lunch, the astronaut goes to the living room to relax and relax for a moment. After a rest, he goes to the gym to work out his muscles. He does not have much time after exercise because the day is shorter. So he goes to the observation room and spends a long time watching. Now the last task before dinner awaits him. The astronaut has to go to the computer room, where he writes the final report of the day, which he saves in his computer and sends it to Earth to let himself know. Then he dines and goes to sleep to prepare for the next day.


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