Meet the experts
Do you want to learn more about space exploration and 3D design?
These webinars with space experts provide an exciting overview about the:
– Past, present and future Moon exploration missions;
– How to use Tinkercad and Fusion 360 to design your Moon Camp;
– The challenges of being an astronaut, with ESA astronaut Tim Peake.
It’s common knowledge that the Moon is a cratered ball of rock. Stunning as it is in the night sky or in photographs taken from orbit the landscape is barren, grey, dusty and dark. Are there other things to be found than meets the eye? Moon scientist Alexandre Meurisse explains which resources can be found on the Moon.
We can 3D print just about anything these days, from tools and buildings to cells and even food. But that’s on Earth, where materials are readily available. What about in space or on the Moon? Could we 3D print a lunar base? ESA engineer Advenit Makaya walks us through the process.
The Apollo Mission proved humans can work on the lunar surface but the longest lunar spacewalk lasted a total of 22 hours. Could humans spend longer amounts of time on the Moon? How about live there, as they do on the International Space Station? Lunar technology expert Bérengère Houdou describes living on the Moon.
Though it has been fifty years since humans first stepped on the Moon, we haven’t forgotten about Earth’s natural satellite. Several missions since Apollo have taught us so much about the Moon and have paved the way for humankind to return. ESA Moon scientist James Carpenter gives us an overview of these missions and future exploration of the Moon.
ESA - European Space Agency astronaut Matthias Maurer invites students all over the world to participate in the Moon Camp Challenge and design their own Moon settlement with a 3D modelling tool (Tinkercad or Fusion 360). Moon Camp is an education project run in collaboration between ESA and the Airbus Foundation, in partnership with Autodesk and it is open to students up to 18 years old.
James Carpenter, from ESA’s Human and Robotics Exploration Directorate, working in areas focusing on space exploration, presents an overview of the lunar exploration efforts that have been done so far and discuss why space agencies believe returning to the Moon is the next stepping stone in space exploration.
In this webinar Mark Chester, Autodesk Academic Partner and 3D Design Expert, presents how to use 3D modelling software to help you design your camp on the Moon. He provides a basic introduction to Tinkercad and Fusion 360.
European Space Agency astronaut Tim Peake answered the questions from the teams behind the 12 winning projects of the Moon Camp Challenge 2018-2019 in this live webinar.
