In the future, to enable astronauts to stay on the Moon for long periods of time, new infrastructures must be developed to overcome important challenges. Such challenges include protection from radiation and meteorites, energy production, the extraction and recycling of water, food production and much more. The Moon Camp Challenge invites students to explore the Moon and decode some of the complexities future astronauts may face.

In Moon Camp Discovery each team’s mission is to 3D design only one component of a Moon Camp using Tinkercad. Teams can choose to design a:

– Lunar lander

– Moon Base

– Lunar rover

– Rocket

– Lunar Orbital Space Station

The design should be adapted to the Moon environment and if possible consider the use of local resources, provide protection and/or living and working facilities for the astronauts.

Moon Camp Discovery is a non-competitive mission for beginners. All teams that submit an entry that complies with the guidelines will receive a participation certificate and their project will be shared on the Moon Camp online platform.

Who can participate?

Participation is open worldwide to students aged up to 19 years old. Moon Camp Discovery is recommended for students aged 6 to 14 years old. Participating students must be supported by a teacher, educator or parent.

Discovery Projects Gallery 2020-2021

Below you can find some of the Moon Camp Discovery projects. For more projects visit the Moon Camp Discovery project gallery.

Team: The Moon Man

Odder    Denmark Category: Moon base
External link for Tinkercad 3D design

This is a moon base, that can give you all you need. On the moon you need electricity, shelter, air, protection, food and water and this moon base can give you all that.

We hope ESAs astronauts will find this moon base usefull and good to live in.

The four small domes are sleeping pods. Each sleeping pod is divided in small private rooms for the two to three astronauts.
In the middle of the moon base there is a headquater, where the astronauts have meetings and decide different things.
The astronauts also have a lounge area here, where they can relax together and play games and have fun.

Each part of the moon base is connected with tunnels, so the astronauts can get to for an example the energy center, the lunar greenhouse and the sleeping pods without having to get out of the moon bases atmosphere each time.

The big lunar greenhouse will give you food, so you can live on the moon as long as you need.
Underneath the greenhouse there is a tube connected. This tube is sending water to a watertank, so the astronauts always have water. The water comes from the frozen water that you can find on the dark and cold sides of the moon. The astronauts warms up the H2O in the greenhouse with the solar energy system.

The solar panels will give you energy and the little dome close to the solar panels will work as an energy center for the astronauts, so they can keep track on how much energy they have and they can also make experiments with energy in this area. The big box underneath the energy dome is a big battery.

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