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Moon Camp Pioneers 2022 – 2023 Project Gallery

In Moon Camp Pioneers, each team’s mission is to 3D design a complete Moon Camp using the software of their choice. They also have to explain how they will use local resources, protect astronauts from the dangers of space and describe the living and working facilities in their Moon Camp.

Moon Palace

郑州轻工业大学附属中学河南省郑州市-金水区 China 19, 18 5 / 3 English
3D design software: Fusion 360

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1.1 – Project Description

The design and construction of this project is a combination of science and culture, without affecting the scientific nature of the Chinese Taiji elements to guide the design and construction of lunar camp. To survive in the microgravity environment of the Moon, astronauts must meet the requirements: water, food, air. The purpose of landing on the Moon has to be fulfilled: the scientific research environment. Satisfaction in the study of human productivity: rest and recreation. The special environment on the Moon must be satisfied: autonomous circulation. Combined with the eight diagrams of the eight diagrams: Qian Kun Xun Lei Dui Gen Li Kan; and Tai Chi Yin and yang fish. So choose the following areas: astronomical observation area, rest area, power center control room, fitness area, travel area, greenhouses, furnace room, water recycling room, radio telescope and rocket launch. In addition, the scientific purpose of the lunar base is to collect comprehensive information about the moon.

1.2 – Why do you want to build a Moon Camp? Explain the main purpose of your Moon Camp (for example scientific, commercial and/or touristic purposes).

It is not only an experimental base of a single nature, but also a comprehensive research experimental site on the Moon. Therefore, it involves a wide range of research, a comprehensive study of life and scientific research. The project will be used to prepare and plan for the initial stage of exploration and development on the moon, which can provide some ideas and methods for the research work on the Moon. The majority of the project’s target population belongs to the space industry, which is mainly used for the development of the Moon for reference.

2.1 – Where do you want to build your Moon Camp? Explain your choice.

Our lunar camp is located in the Etken Basin in Antarctica, because it’s near the Moon’s South Pole, the largest basin in the solar system, and it’s flat and stays in the sun 70 to 80 percent of the time, solar energy can be used to provide sufficient power for the Moon base. And because there is a lot of material that is not available in other regions of the world from the impact, there is much more to study for material exploration at the base. In the polar regions there are many lunar water ice stored in the night area, which is conducive to the survival of astronauts need.

2.2 – How do you plan to build your Moon Camp? Consider how you can utilise the Moon’s natural resources, and which materials you would need to bring from Earth. Describe the techniques, materials and your design choices.

The middle part of Tai Chi we designed to use polyhedron dome as support, in the black part of the use of heat-absorbing black paint, absorb ultraviolet heat, can be used to maintain indoor temperature. Choose to use aluminum alloy construction shell, add a layer of air bag in the middle of anti-collision, and aluminum alloy inside coated with a thin film of lead radiation. Building components are made from moulds or 3D printing. Molten lunar soil magma can be pumped to any location in a high-temperature metal pipe for casting or 3D printing of various structures. Using nanotechnology to build a strong camp. We chose to use solar panels to form the gossip around tai chi, using solar energy to generate electricity for the base.

2.3 – How does your Moon Camp protect and provide shelter to your astronauts against the Moon’s harsh environment?

The lunar camp’s tunnels are connected, keeping the astronauts out of the sun and safe. In addition, the lunar camp is equipped with a water cycle, air circulation system, which ensures the long-term living needs of the astronauts. Equipped with a gym to improve the astronauts’ muscle condition and prevent muscle atrophy caused by living on the Moon for a long time, a rocket silo was set up for emergency escape support.

3.1 – How will your Moon Camp provide astronauts with sustainable access to basic needs like water, food, air and power?

Water: Water resources are provided by solid water in the polar permanent night area, and they are recycled for wastewater resources. Water acquisition by hot mining.
Food: In terms of food, we use soilless cultivation and space breeding to cultivate common crops (such as soybean, rhizobia with nitrogen fixation) and crops suitable for the lunar environment to meet life needs. Using synthetic glucose technology to create convenient and fast food.
Power: A solar zone was built outside the base to provide sufficient solar power. We also consider the use of large amounts of polar lunar ice, which may contain large amounts of methane ice, solid ammonia, and heavy water in addition to water. The carbon in methane will be used by food factories to make food. The nitrogen in ammonia is used to make amino acids and proteins in food. The melted water began to electrolysis. There are 3 kinds of electrolytic products, hydrogen, oxygen, heavy water. Hydrogen is used to make steel, and the iron produced by reducing iron ore with hydrogen is also of good quality, with almost no carbon impurities. The byproduct of reducing iron ore with hydrogen is water. The water can be drunk or returned to the cell for further electrolysis. Some of the electrolytic oxygen is sent into the ventilation system for human breathing, while the other part is cold east into“Oxygen ice”, open storage.
Air: We get oxygen through the electrolysis of water, moon ice and metal oxides, as well as the air circulation of carbon dioxide and oxygen.

3.2 – How will your Moon Camp deal with the waste produced by the astronauts on the Moon?

For kitchen waste water and urine and other waste can be through the water recycling system for further purification treatment, repeated use. Manure is produced by composting and other methods to provide nutrients for organic fertilizer for growing greenery. Carbon Dioxide and other substances through the air cycle and the photosynthesis of green plants to generate oxygen, industrial waste for many useless after disposal.

3.3 – How will your Moon Camp maintain communications with Earth and other Moon bases?

With radar, we can pick up signals from other lunar bases and transmit information from space stations and satellites between the Earth and the Moon. It is also possible to drive the lunar rover directly for material exchange between the camps.

4.1 – What scientific topic(s) would be the focus of the research in your Moon Camp? Explain which experiments you plan to do on the Moon (for example in the topics of geology, low gravity environment, biology, technology, robotics, astronomy etc.).

Scientific Topic: Lunar Astronomical Experiment.
Main Research Direction: the orbit of planets and stars in the inner Solar System affects the gravity of lunar experiment sites, the regular change of the orbit of the inner and outer planets of the Solar System to the inner environment of the Moon.
Gravitational effects of planetary and stellar trajectories in the inner Solar System on lunar experiment sites:
1. It can record the gravity change of lunar experiment sites, and can better design and construct lunar experiment sites and various lunar bases or lunar colonies in the future.
2. Other experiments that can be conducted at lunar sites provide data on gravity changes, such as the low-gravity environment of the moon and the effects of gravity changes on the human body.
The regular changes of the orbit of the outer and inner planets in the Solar System to the inner environment of the Moon:
1. It can record the fixed motion and orientation of some galaxies and some special changes or special functions in the lunar environment, such as the tidal changes on Earth or the action of the North Star in the direction above, can more concise transmission of some information to facilitate the future of various lunar bases or lunar colonies.
2. Jot down some neat bits of information in conjunction with other experiments to uncover the laws behind the information and move humanity forward in astronomy.

5.1 – What would you include in your astronaut training programme, to help prepare the astronauts for a Moon mission?

Basic knowledge training, physical fitness training, overweight and weightlessness training, simulated flight training, psychological quality training, ability to adapt to special circumstances training, personal life-saving ability training, spacecraft technology training, aerospace medical engineering technology training, space science extrusion application knowledge and technology training, comprehensive training, etc.

5.2 – What space vehicles will your future Moon mission need? Describe the vehicles found in your Moon camp and consider how you will travel to and from Earth, and explore new destinations on the Moon’s surface.

Spacecraft such as spaceships, space elevators or rockets are needed. Solar-and thermal-powered lunar rovers are the most commonly used vehicles in the camp. For the time being, we are preparing to set up a new base for the transportation of Moon Ice Trucks to and from China by rockets.