NASA

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NASA

• LUNAR STATION PROJECT

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Members

• Vicente
• Emilio
• José
• Juan Manuel
• 2 PAI

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Introduction

• We believe there can be a station were people
  can live on the moon. We will tell you the main
  characteristics that a lunar station must have.
  And what we have to think of when we plan a
  station.

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Transport

• We will use a vehicle to transport and explore
  the moon.
• It has to be 4 wheel all purpose vehicle to be
  able to move in the rough lunar surface.
• It must be able to carry a good load in case we
  need to transport heavy equipment.

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Location

• The great high lunar plateau is the best place to
  locate a lunar station because the chances of a
  meteorite sticking the surface of the moon are
  lower so is the amount of radiation.

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Materials

• It would be very expensive to transport materials
  from earth. The best is to use materials
  available on the moon. Even though the moon is
  poor on Hydrogen, Nitrogen and Carbon it has
  materials that can be of use and are easy to
  process like Regolite.
• Lunar soil is rich in oxides. The most common is
  silicon dioxide (SiO2), "like beach sand,". Also
  plentiful are oxides of calcium (CaO), iron (FeO)
  and magnesium (MgO). Add up all the O's 43 of
  the mass of lunar soil is oxygen and can be used
  for several purposes.
• NASA is working on a technique that heats lunar
  soils until they release oxygen. This can
  eventually be used to our advantage.
• A new and advanced material called RXF1 based on
  Polyethylene, that is actually stronger and
  lighter than aluminum can be transported to the
  moon at lower costs.
• Finally Oxygen, metals and other materials could
  be extracted from the asteroids that crash in the
  lunar surface.

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Communications

• Compared with other requirements communications
  are relatively easier to establish due to the
  vacuum existent in space. Radio signals travel
  easily in these conditions and make good
  communication systems. For this to work properly
  special attention should be put into precisely
  calibrating the antennas. This has to be the case
  in both moon and earth stations.

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Food and Water

• The best way to conserve food is dehydrated in
  cans or special plastic bags.
• To obtain water a special robot can travel to
  the north or south poles of the moon to get ice
  and bring it back to the station where it can be
  melted. This can also produce oxygen.

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Protection against radiation

• It would be helpful but expensive to use the new
  electrically charged set of sphere shields and
  the 40m masts that have been designed by NASA to
  deviate radiation.

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Energy

• Solar energy will be used in many instances like
  ovens made with light metallic sheets. Solar
  panels could provide the station with energy for
  electric light, computers and to heat water and
  electric stoves. Some reflection panels could be
  used to provide light for plants, this could
  eventually form a small atmosphere.

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Space Suits

• We will use space suits made out off metal parts,
  nylon and the new material named RXFI. The
  technology used in space suits to protect
  astronauts carrying out space walks in direct
  sunlight is so good that it is now being used to
  develop protective clothing to safeguard
  firefighters and steel workers who often work in
  extremely hot and dangerous conditions

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Trash

• We will compress and brake down the inorganic
  trash (plastic, metal, glass etc.) then it will
  be used and transformed into building materials.
• The organic trash can be used to make compost for
  the plants.

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• The first level of the lunar station

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• Side view

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Lunar station
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Top view
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Conclusion

• We conclude that it is very difficult to live on
  the moon. Many things have to be considered. We
  have to be thankful that on earth we have all
  these factors to be able to survive.

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Bibliography

• quest.arc.nasa.gov/lunar/outpostchallenge/aboutmoo
  n.html
• solarsystem.nasa.gov/moon/profile