Our Moon Camps  main purpose is a safe and responsible outpost for humans on the moon. We want to give mankind a new inspiration to increase the interests in the regions far away from our earth and show new technical possibilities. We need to engage young people who are exited for the aerospace development to reach new big milestones.

Overall our Moon camp consists of single honeycomb formed modules to ensure a modularity of the base and to create the possibility to expand our camp. The development of the camp is very flexible because a 3d printing rover enables the opportunity to print modulus as they are needed.

Furthermore we will have a parking space for our rovers and a launch area for supply- and evacuation rockets, which is placed at a distance to the camp to enable the safety of our astronauts.

We protect the camp and crew of dangers while placing the vital modules inside the moon soil, to ensure a natural protection against micro-meteorites and radiation.

Furthermore the single modules are separated from each other with special gates which can be closed in a dangerous situation.

In the beginning of the camps construction just a tiny amount of resources is available. Hence the camp is the first couple of years dependent to supplies from earth. At the end we want to develop a complete self-sufficient camp, which will become more independent in the future. 

We decided to build the Camp in the region of the North Pole, because of the availability of water ice in the deep crater areas.

In addition to that the temperatures at the North Pole of the Moon outside of the craters are very mild and the sun shines nearly the whole day, which ensures a part of the energy production.

At the same time we build our camp on the edge of a crater to lower the chance of meteorite impacts and radiation. Nevertheless we build the camp just at the edge of the crater to prevent the base from complete darkness and in order to accomplish every important technical device which is placed outside of the crater. Eventually, we put a part of the Moon Camp into the wall of the crater, to increase the safety.

A autonomous rover will be send to the moon at first, to mine moon soil. With a special manufacturing process, which is currently developed on the earth we make the soil usable for a 3d printing rover, with which we will build a shell for the modules. This method saves a lot of time, costs and prevents astronauts from radiation among they would have to suffer when they would need to build a camp.

Furthermore the rover is mining into the wall of the crater to build a cave in which the most vital modules will be placed.

Inside of the printed shells, the Rover will build a special and very durable plastic bubble with a aluminium frame, to create a safe environment for the first astronauts.

After the construction of a save place for the astronauts, the equipment for the vital modules are sent to the moon camp, which includes the life support systems, as well as a first provision of air and food.

At the beginning the Moon camp will have a crew of 5 people, to secure that there is a specialist for every important subject area, like engineering or medicine.

In the future the camp will become larger to support more than 10 individuals.

A big challenge is radiation of space and meteorite impacts, which could destroy vital modules and endanger the crew. Therefore we build the most important modules in a cave in the wall of the crater. 

At the same time the rest of the modulus which are not placed in the wall of the crater are protected by putting a layer of  moon soil (76 centimeters are enough to prevent the modules from radiation) above the modules. 

Apart of the dangers which are caused by space, the crew is burdened with isolation from the people on the earth, therefore they have a constant contact to their friends and family on earth via VR meetings. To protect the crew from muscle reduction, they have fixed training times on every day.

The location of our Moon Camp is chosen deliberately, as in the deep areas of the crater are water ice occurrences. Hence we could drive to the ground of the crater with an autonomous rover, which mines water ice with a special reinforced drill and transports the ice to the camp. In the parts of the crater is no light and that’s why the rover needs to be powered by batteries. The water ice will be melted by using the waste heat from the atomic reactor and focused sun light.
At the same time when we produce water we make a methanation to convert the Co2 in the breathing air to water. Another reaction product is methane, which could be used as a rocket fuel for the Starship from SpaceX.
The arising water hasn’t got nutritions and therefore we receive nutrient solution for the water and the plants from earth.

The food supply in the beginning of the Camp needs to be standard astronaut food, but in the future it will be produced in a greenhouse. This greenhouse has no windows because there would be needed a very thick glas layer because of the radiation.

The principle of our food production is based on the „Underground farming“ in which the sun light is imitated by LED light and the ground is made from a growing medium. The nutrient solution enables a high crop yield. Feces are used as fertilizer.

The growing medium consists of wood fiber and is very light, that’s why it could be send to the moon very easy. The irrigation is autonomous. The food is also produced like the same principle which was developed on the „Neumayer_station“ in antarctica.

However, certain proteins which are needed to live are send from earth. Hence full independence cannot be reached.

On the surface of the moon is a lot of sunlight available, that will be transformed by solar collectors to energy. Nevertheless we would need a lot of solar collectors to produce enough power especially for the rover mining and building processes. Furthermore we think a secondary energy source is mandatory, e.g. in the case of a meteorite impact in the solar collector field, that could cause a life threatening power drop.

Therefore the main energy is produced from atomic energy, which bases on a submarine pressure water reactor. The waste heat is used to heat the camp and to provide the necessary thermal heat when we do a methanation. Later we use the heat to melt the water ice.

Furthermore energy storages are the hydrogen which is produced at the electrolysis and the methane from the methanitation and we will need battery packs for mobile equipment (rovers, etc).

To minimize the transportation of air from the earth, we produced the main oxygen on the moon.
With the electrolyses we separate the mined water ice to hydrogen and oxygen. The oxygen could be used to breath.
Furthermore we separate the ores from the moon soil to oxygen and metal powder, which is used for the 3d printing.

We want to reuse a big part of the used air and that’s why the air is directed to the greenhouse in which the CO2 reacts with the plants by photosynthesis and generates oxygen.

On top of that we plant plants which filter poisonous gases like „formaldehyde“. We want to use for example green lilies which have a high filtering effect (according „clean air study“ from NASA).

To create a similar breathing air on the Camp, like on the earth we send nitrogen to the camp at the beginnings.

At the beginning the moon camp is just used for scientific aspects. One essential investigation is the documentation of long-term consequences of the stay at the camp. Missions on the ISS lasted not longer than 1 Year. Hence the impact of long therm isolation for future missions to e.g. the mars aren’t known. At the same time there is not a lot of knowledge how to provide astronauts with food and energy which is needed for the colonization of the mars. 

Furthermore our moon camp should be tested to be a freight yard for future missions. 

In addition to that we want to build a radio telescope, which could find new discovery’s in space and provides information for physical problems. 

The costs for the camp are high and therefore some tourists could visit the camp. In the end the camp shoud also inspire young people to STEM_classes and industries. 

To enable the best scientific research and investigation, as well as the regulated care and safety, the crew of the Moon Camp will comprise of astronauts, who have a wide bandwidth of knowledge in a lot of different subject areas. The astronauts will work in shift work, so that enough persons are awake to react on possible dangers in emergencies. The different shifts overlap for an hour, so that the astronauts of the shifts could evaluate all events together. We will adapt to a normal 24h earth day with 13h shifts. 

When the shift starts the astronauts wake up, have breakfast and prepare for work. Every day the astronauts work in the laboratory, to make experiments. After that they compose a protocol to safe all results. 

At the same time the Crew is committed to make at least 2 hours sports a day in order to reduce the loss of muscles and bone density, which is caused of the low gravity.

Later the Astronauts have free time, in which they have the possibility to contact persons on the earth, to minimize the psychological stress of isolation. 

Furthermore every system of the Camp is controlled every day, by the engineers, with the target of regulate the reactors power and cooling the fuel rods.

In addition to that the function of the vital systems has to be saved and the oxygen level has to be checked, to activate the methanation in case of a high CO2 level. The plants are also proved and could be harvest when they are big enough.

The astronauts are also committed to visit the stations doctor 2 times a week, to make routine checks.

To have the possibility to evacuate the camp in the case of an emergency or bring an injured crew member to earth an evacuation rocket has to be checked and prepared. In general the rockets which supply the camp or bring experiments back to earth should be prepared.

Overall all rovers and modulus are verified to keep all systems go.

In an emergency a warning siren in the mission control modules in the camp, indicates a problem, which has to be solved immediately. 

This daily routine enables a responsible operation of our Moon Camp and includes all important aspects to keep the Crew safe. The normal rhythm of the earth is assumed on the Camp to receive a normal day for the astronauts.