Space Maniacs

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Our project’s objective is to equip an empty Mars’ Habitat with the essential tools and furniture that a one-year mission astronaut will require, hoping to achieve simplicity and efficiency on our designs.

First of all, we decided that research would be our main foundation to successfully equip a Mars Habitat. So, we initially learned about Mars’s environmental conditions (gravity, temperature, pressure and terrain) to understand how our designs would react to adverse missions. We compiled critical information about how Mars’s habitats are blueprinted and how capabilities such as quarters, windows, gym areas, workstations and waste collection systems are rated according to their significance in the mission. 

After all Martian’s conditions were acknowledged we made focus on the design aspect of the project which englove technical information on how to develop a 3D printed piece:

1. Define the main characteristics and functions of the tool or furniture. Try to answer these questions: ¿Would it be a plug-in piece? ¿Would it have to deal with stress?
2. Sketch the piece and specify real measures. 
3. Design the 3D piece

Apart from these guidelines, we had to consider our printing capabilities such as material scarcity, printing area, dimensions, and lastly, printing durations. 

Next, our team identified the 4 main categories: Survival, Working, Waste Treatment and Leisure, which endorses necessities and problems an astronaut would have to deal with during their one-year-long mission.

Survival: 

This category refers to all primary and vital necessities such as eating, sleeping, physical activity, human waste disposal, and personal hygiene.

We list the proposed tools:

Spoon and fork:

They are going to need cutlery to eat out of their re-hydrated food, so we found a tool that could be suitable for the job:

Multi-use bed:

They are going to need a bed, which is included in the original furniture we created (this is shown in the Links below), that comes with: a chair, table, space for bed, a drawer for clothes and sheets.

This furniture is going to be produced by the concrete printer. It’s general measurements are:

• HEIGHT: 800mm
• WIDTH: 1500mm
• LENGHT:1900mm

The space for the bed measurements are: 

• HEIGHT: 200mm
• WIDTH: 900mm
• LENGHT: 2061mm

And the drawer’s measurements are:

• HEIGHT: 400mm
• WIDTH: 900mm
• LENGHT:1900mm

Working:

This particular area is the most demanding one, in terms of need. These are some of the tasks that they would encounter themselves with:

• 3D printing of tools and furniture.
• Montage and assembling of parts and tools
• Monitoring of operations
• Communications 
• Research sample analysis
• Equipment maintenance

The tools necessary are the following:

Multi-use Screwdriver

This is the most used tool in the habitat as its handle can be demounted and used with other tips such as a personalized hammer or screw tips. It's going to be manufactured all in metal and all pieces are single pieces, no assembly needed. The handle is 10cm tall, the hammer 14cm, and the tips 4cm.

Wrench

It's going to facilitate the screw and unscrew of special volts. It's made of plastic and measures 30cm long. The design is based from the internet as its pretty basic

Rover’s wheel:

Due to an unexpected crash, the rover has damaged one of its wheels. We designed a backup plan to replace it with one printed in plastic. Its dirt-print indicates where the rover has come. Plus, its closed interior avoids rocks entering the wheel and damaging it.

It is composed by two cones opposed to each other which serves for support of the tracks.

The cone is made of plastic and is divided into 13 pieces which are designed such that they can be assembled with each other. Each cone division is 25cm long and 13cm wide.

 The plastic tracks are joined with iron beams to ensure stability and each one measures 19cm long. A pair of those is 38cm wide.

“Chess” Bolt:

This basic piece has the goal of adjusting in place furniture parts but also can be part of a chess game. We incorporated a shaped text below the bolts’ heads to offer the crew some entertainment while complying with its main functionality.

They are 1,5 cm long and are made of metal.

Leisure: 

An important place that allows recreational activities where astronauts can relax playing, creating or reading. Knowing that astronauts need to stay in the habitat for 1 year, it's important to maintain mental health by performing different activities.

Tools involved:

“Chess” Bolts 

Decontamination area: 

An important area where we will separate our waste and garbage in order to clean the habitat and eliminate any cross contamination. We assume that the habitat will have a hygiene room and we count with a WCS (Waste collection system). Here are some of the tasks:

• Vacuum decontamination
• UV surface cleaning
• Waste collection and separation
• Clothing storage

Bins:

For this task we design a model which allows us to separate wet and dry waste that is thought to be connected with the WCS (Waste collection system). 

We couldn’t make our own 3D model but as it's very generic we will follow internet models. They are going to be made up of plastic and from assembled pieces.

Clothing storage

This is a model of a wardrobe where the astronaut can save his clothes.

3.1 UV surface cleaning

For this task we made a model of a glovebox our MSG provides resources such as power, data, video, heat rejection, vacuum, nitrogen, and containment for investigations. The facility is suitable for handling hazardous materials when the crew is present. MSG is capable of accommodating both physical science and biological research payloads. Although it is not priority 1 in the long term when our astronaut has covered the basic needs. This tool will become essential for scientific research missions and sample analysis. We decided to print in parts, beginning with the table and finally the the frame with the holes.

For this project we use some of the articles that appear in the “Resources” site.

https://ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citations/20200001427/downloads/20200001427.pdf

For the instance of resarch about twork that NASA’s partners have done in designing habitats. This article provide us a reference of what commonly we can find in a habitat.

https://www.nasa.gov/analog

https://nasa3d.arc.nasa.gov/models

https://nasa3d.arc.nasa.gov/search/mars

Information about habitat analogs that replicate space travel conditions on Earth to help learn about what we need to live in space:

Information about habitat analogs that replicate space travel conditions on Earth to help learn about what we need to live in space:

https://www.nasa.gov/chapea

https://www.nasa.gov/analogs/media

We could describe it as an invaluable experience where we learnt how to work with newly met team members and share different views and ideas of a single rare problem. We learnt that sometimes there is no one best solution but a mixture of all proposed. Initially, we focused on research and the gathering of vital information such as Mars’ environmental conditions, NASA habitats’ blueprints, Rovers’ designs and additive manufacturing. This really helps us understand the background we were working with and encounter the difficulties with other minds. Regarding our challenges, we struggled on dividing tasks, updating progress and planning our work schedule but, after several discussions, we successfully overcame them and achieved the main goal of our project. I would like to thank all the organizers from the Mars Society Argentina for giving us the opportunity to get involved in modern and exciting problem solving challenges and to be part of a global initiative. Surely we are better teammates, friends and competitors after this great event. 

An article on the work NASA partners have done on habitat design that might make you think about what kind of rooms early explorers will live in:

https://ttu-ir.tdl.org/handle/2346/87095

A presentation on habitat outfitting by Mark Hilburger at the Lunar Surface Innovation Consortium.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SwFcwEBIiEQ&feature=youtu.be

Technical information on additive manufacturing. Includes material databases and fabrication test artifact design:

https://www.nist.gov/additive-manufacturin

Canada This set of Martian weather data will help you better understand and plan for environmental conditions on Mars:

Barometric pressure: between 500 and 1200 pascals, 120 times lower than on earth.

Temperature: between 140 and 280 Kelvin or between -133 and 7 Celsius.

https://donnees-data.asc-csa.gc.ca/dataset/0e338f52-25e4-465c-8104-bb9d7c8d3df3

These 3D scans of CSA's Mars Emulation Terrain in Saint-Hubert, QC might help you better understand the terrain your creations will have to contend with:

https://donnees-data.asc-csa.gc.ca/dataset/65376529-3z6l-6u7e-732sbzy824wa25

INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION TOOLS

https://cults3d.com/es/modelo-3d/herramientas/internationand al-space-station-tools

We inspired in this space data for upgrade our knowledge in space habitats Thank to that we can proyect need and tool that solves that need and other task that become to appear in the resarch.

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