Our base will be built for scientific purposes and it will be a long-running project. The base consists of entering the zone, main zone, working zone, general storage, refinery, laboratory, botanical garden, electrolyzers, H2, O2, and H2O tanks, concave mirrors for melting the ice, radial detachable tanks, and water filters which all are connected with hallways. Other than these sections, the base has a shelter separated from the main zone for emergencies; a solar farm; a landing area for rockets, rover and a helicopter to observe environment.

Our camp will be in Shackelton crater in Lunar South Pole. Because in this crater, the temperature change between day and night is less. The reason of building the camp inside a crater is ice. For the experiments that we will make on the moon need ice and according to NASA’s researches, there is ice in the craters.

Our base will be built with the projects submitted gradually. To build our moon camp, lunar regolith will be our main ingredient and thanks to this we can lower our cost too. When our space shuttle lands on Moon, some of our construction robots are going to make concrete by using lunar regolith, sepiolite which we will bring from Earth, and water which we will obtain from our hydrogen and oxygen. This is our version of Lunarcrete and our base will be constructed with this concrete. Sepiolite in our concrete provides radiation shielding and unlike lead which is also used in radiation shielding, it doesn’t pose harm to human health. As our base is being constructed, the rest of our robots are going to compound parts of oxygen and hydrogen tanks, found our botanical garden, place solar panels and set up our smeltery and production area.

We used material combinations in camp and this provides us a more sustainable and safer mooncamp. Outermost layer will be regolith. This layer is going to be main protective layer against physical damages.It is also going to be a radiation shielding for our astronauts with both its regolith mass and the sepiolite material. Our second layer is aluminium and this is going to be a pressure layer.Our last and thinnest layer actually will be placed in second layer and they both will form a kind of pressure vessel.This third layer will be made from water and polyethylene. Also we have a rail system in case meteors fall around our base. For problems such as insufficient clean air, we will use ECLSS system. In addition, astronauts will have exercise areas to prevent gravitational deterioration of their body structure and if any problem occurs due to health, we have a medical area.

Helicopter fly over the crater and detect ice. After that rovers dig and store the ice block in tanks. On the base water will be obtained with 2 methods, first, ice blocks can be melted with the heat we get from solar energy. Second, sunrays are gathered at the focal point of the convex mirror and the ice masses that have been brought are melted. The melted ” water” is then freed from radiation with “radial detachable tanks” and turned into potable water. Also for an additional source we will use vacuum pumps to filter out the urine.

First, we will use astronaut foods. Later we will produce food with our botanical garden. Our plan for the plants is using urine. Soil of Lunar has all essential minerals for the growth of plants, excluding reactive nitrogen. This is why we will use urine. The urine contains a certain amount of both nitrogen and potassium. After passing the urine through the “membrane distillation” and separate the nitrogen and potassium, we can use it as fertilizer for the plants.
Different colour lights have been shown to be effective for the growth of plants we will use this method.

Solar panels will work actively throughout the day and the energy obtained will be used for the entire base and to charge the batteries that will be used during night time. In order to ensure enough energy for the whole base we can electrolyse the water during the day to turn it into H2 and O2, which can be combusted to release energy.

Air will be obtained by the electrolysis of oxygen obtained from the electrolysis of water. At the same time, urine discharged from humans is converted into water in vacuum pumps thus we will obtain more air and electricity with the same electrolysis cycle. Also we will obtain oxygen from compounds of lunar soil and use molten tank electrolysis to distil oxygen from compounds and we will have nitrogen thanks to converted urine water and addition nitrogen source will be brought from Earth in pressured tanks.

Aether is designed to be the first lunar outpost that has several approaches to the moon explorations. Our goals are to observe the lives of plants and bacteria on the moon through botanical research while monitoring their adaptations; examine the minerals in the moon’s soil in order to ascertain what we can grow according to their qualities; investigate the surface of the moon and reveal its geological history, also creating a mining area; examine the Helium 3 isotope, which promises a clean source for nuclear energy; create a rocket base for future expeditions to the outer space.

The crew members will work in shifts. Once every two days the person who had the morning shift will do the night shift, therefore they will not be awake at the same time of the day throughout the whole exploration. Additionally, this will provide having control over the systems 24/7, thus reducing the risks. The day will be divided into three sections:
The first section will be the personal needs, which include exercising, self-cleaning, eating, checking the personal and general messages from the earth;
The second section will be the common tasks. For instance, checking the system whether there are any malfunctions;
The third section will be the personal tasks. These tasks will be distributed regarding the expertise of the astronauts. The crew members will encompass chemical, electrical, biological engineers, and a military doctor who has already known how to pilot. The chemical engineering will conduct experiments about the lunar surface objects that rovers collected; scrutinize the minerals in them; be responsible for researching the Helium 3 isotope and mining activities. The biological engineer will monitor the evolvement of the plants, lives of the bacterias and also check the minerals with the chemical engineer to ascertain what can be grown according to their qualities. The electrical engineer will control the systems, electronic devices; communicate with the earth; do 3d printing. The military doctor will check both the physical and mental health of the crew members while also piloting. Before the mission, these astronauts will learn all the basics of the other’s tasks. For example, everyone will know how to do first aid or the fundamentals of how the main system works. Hence, in emergencies, everyone will know how to take action, therefore prevent possible negative outcomes.