Self-Constructing, Deployable, Ready-To-Use Habitat for the Moon: a Cheap Challenge for a Lunar Base Italian Affiliate Campus for Space Architecture of Internati

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Conference/Event

Author/Creator:

Bedini, Bedini, author.

Conference Name:

International Conference On Environmental Systems (1996-07-08 : Monterey, California, United States)

Language:

English

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1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Warrendale, PA SAE International 1996

Summary:

Space: so far so expensive! If the Space Station has a 6-yeardelay in respect to the initial schedule, Lunar Base will have a15-year delay, if we continue to think in a conservative way.We need a new approach for the missions' and mannedsystems' design.The ISU-IACSA (Italian Affiliate Campus for Space Architectureof the International Space University) current activities arefocused on "self-constructing" and "self-shapinghabitat." The major cost of a space mission is essentially thetransfer "flights" from Earth to Space, and, in the caseof the Moon, all the steps to go there, space station's stopsincluded.Many flights are necessary to build a Lunar base due to thelarge number of elements by which it is composed; in particular,the current NASA's Lunar Base configuration for 12 people isbased on 5 flights minimum and on a lot of time to be spent by theastronauts once on the surface of Moon to assemble the base (in aspace suit).The aim of the ISU-IACSA research is to design a newconstruction technology able to reduce drastically the number offlights and the human work in the pressurized suit.A new design approach is under testing.Beginning from the launch vehicle to the final assembly, theFlorentine research has an objective: to design a single-flightmission and a ready-to-use habitat; that means to think at arobotized construction technology able to be maneuvered fromcontrol center on the Earth: we could think at a"teleconstruction." In this case astronauts would arriveon the Moon and could live in the habitat at the same time. Someinteresting solutions came out at University of Florence.The paper will present the research's design philosophy andsome architectural/technological solutions.In particular, will be presented two design projects: one basedon a 4.5 diameter cylinder and the second on a 16 meters indiameter sphere, both using inflatable and self-constructingtechnology

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961398

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