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Moon Camp Pioneers Gallery 2019-2020

In Moon Camp Pioneers each team’s mission is to 3D design a complete Moon Camp using Fusion 360. They also have to explain how they will use local resources, protect astronauts from the dangerous of space and describe the living and working facilities.

Team: Matfiz

Liceum ogolnoksztalcace im. Tadeusza Kosciuszki w Miechowie  Miechow    Poland 15 to 16 years old

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Project description

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Describe your Moon Camp project.

Our goal is to take  the first step in the moon colonization, so in the future our base will be able to develop. To compensate the costs, the base will  produce hydrogen to supply satellites, orbiting around the Earth, in fuel. One of the goals are surveys about human life, animals and plant breeding in low gravitation. The base will be built of fourteen modules folded and equipped from the Earth. The system of modules will be situated to capture as much sunlight as it is possible, because it will be located in the polar zone. The base will be hardened with regolith and bonded with polymorphic sulfur except a sluice and a greenhouse. The roof will be covered with a  lead plate for absorbing solar radiation. In the roof of every module there will be a window in a form of “a chimney” and it will be completed with mirrors put at the right angle to let natural light light up  the base inside.

Where do you want to build your Moon Camp?

Our base will be located in the northern hemisphere on the side of the moon visible from the Earth. It will provide an access to a crater rich in ice and connected with the Earth. The base should be located as close as it is possible to the crater rich in ice and the area must be aligned to be  flat enough.

How do you plan to build your Moon Camp? Describe the techniques and materials you would use.

After we find a great place to build our base rovers will remove a layer of regolith. Than we must drill 6 holes – each must be 1 meter deep. In these holes we put 6 steel columns ended with locking feet. On these columns there will be a steel frame on which the modules will be laid. The walls of the modules will be made of light and durable materials like aluminium alloys and Buckypaper. The windows will be made of AION. Modules will be built on the Earth and then will be raised on the moon orbit by rockets. On the orbit the received parts will be taken from the rocket by a special lander, after that they will be put close to the construction. On the moon parts and modules will be transported by cranes on caterpillars to the final assembling. The whole construction will be hardened by regolith bonded with polymorphic sulfur.

Water
Food
Electricity
Air

Water will be obtained from ice. The ice located in the crater close to the base will be extracted by drills fastened to the ground. It will be loaded on a kind of truck with some space for an astronaut. The truck will move on 2 rails from the crater to the base. When the truck arrives to the base, it will be emptied and the ice will be crushed and melted by hot air. Melted water will be filtered and it will be transported to the tank of water for astronauts and plants.

Food will be produced from plants located in greenhouses with access to the sunshine. Plants will produce different and high-energy food and oxygen. Plants cannot take too much place that there would be as many as possible. Mainly they will be root crops because they do not take too much place. After harvesting, the plants will be kept in a storage module. An astronaut will be able to prepare food from harvested plants. The waste from the plants and food that cannot be useful will be stored in the composter and then used as plant fertilizer.

The main source of power will be photovoltaic panels situated on the base. Emergency source of power will be hydrogen that has been extracted from water with electrolysis process.

The air will be treated with oxygen produced by plants and created in the process of water electrolysis

How do you plan to build your Moon Camp? Which materials would you use?

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The environment on the Moon is very dangerous for the astronauts. Explain how your Moon Camp will protect them.

To protect the crew from micrometeorites and radiation, the whole base will be hardened with regolith and the roof will be covered with a lead plate for absorbing solar radiation. Also the pressure suitable for people will be maintained by durable modules.

Describe a day on the Moon for your Moon Camp astronaut crew.

A typical day begins with waking up of the crew. First hours the moon crew dedicates for personal hygiene, breakfast and gym exercises, because every astronaut should do a lot of special exercises to avoid losing muscle mass or bone density in lower gravitation. Then the crew does specially planned exercises which are related with base functioning. After that, they  test devices that are responsible for communication, pressure, temperature, food, water, electric power. Before midday, half of the crew  goes to work in the greenhouses. They must take care if cultivation yields high. After that, the leftover of meals and BIO-waste must be transported by the crew to the composter to get fertilizer necessary in crop farming. In the same time the rest of the crew mines ice and transports it  to the base, next they control the process of cleansing, liquefaction and electrolysis. When all the exercises have been completed the astronauts put on their suits and go to the mine of raw materials to take some rock samples. Later,  the crew  goes to eat dinner and at this moment working day ends. Also, the astronauts go to the main room where they  talk to the controller to plan their next day. After the conference, the crew have some free time during which they can train, read  books, listen to music, talk to their families  or admire the cosmos. At the end of the day the crew must take care of hygiene. After that, each astronaut  goes to his cabin. The astronauts sleep in beds attached to the walls.



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