High-Level Project Summary
The idea of the project is to create an application that allows the user to feel the experience of traveling through space and what pressures living organisms face during this journey. The difficulties and influences faced by the astronaut, all the animals and plants that have gone into space, and the construction of an astrobiology superhero capable of facing these challenges
Link to Final Project
Link to Project "Demo"
Detailed Project Description
In our challenge, we try to understand it to have a creative idea in this project. After searching we found a perfect idea, we can make an application that makes the user allow to travel in the solar system and the user can travel to any place in the solar system by choosing this place or zooming on it. And after the user chooses this place information about this place will appear to make awareness for the user to show him some information about the effects in this place like temperature and pressure, etc.…. and shows to use pictures and videos to show him many ideas in this place and what did the effects like pressure and temperature and so on in the human. This is the application that did us want to do but the time made us can’t do this application with these specifications, we try to do a mini version from it, and we make an application that shows the user what the bad effects happening in the space with pictures and videos to explain it. This application makes awareness of space and the challenges that face astronomers. After that, creating a creature to face the space challenges will help us to discover space.
The idea of the project is to create an application that allows the user to feel the experience of space travel and what are the pressures that living organisms face during this trip, and these pressures are summed up in the high percentage of radiation, which negatively affects the health of astronauts and in the long run by increasing the risk of cancer.
And also the emergency health crisis, as during exposure to an emergency health crisis there may be difficulty in communicating between the injured astronaut and the crews trained with the emergency at NASA.
The third of these challenges is to protect the bones from side effects, as exercise time in space is considered sacred, whatever the tasks, as everyone must make sure that astronauts are not under pressure to give up their time to exercise to complete some experiments.
"This is very important, and without it, muscles and bones are at risk as soon as we land," said Dr. Peter Norsek of NASA.
One of the challenges facing them is also maintaining the integrity of the immune system
"Sleep while flying is important, as it can affect the immune system significantly," says Brian Crutchian, a NASA immunologist.
One of the biggest challenges is also the atmospheric pressure.
Zero pressure in space
Space is a vacuum devoid of air, and this means that - unlike Earth - there is no atmosphere or pressure for air molecules, where atmospheric pressure determines the temperatures at which liquids boil and turn into a gaseous state, so the boiling point of liquids decreases, and based on the composition of the human body and that It consists of more than 60% water, so when an astronaut falls from his spaceship, he wears a space suit, his body will explode within minutes and his life will stop
And many other challenges that our application illustrates, including information about all the animals and plants that have been in space, and how to build a biology superhero that can live with these conditions.
Space Agency Data
We made use of the data provided on the NASA website and the available references, and from here we got different ideas towards our challenge.
Hackathon Journey
The hackathon trip was a unique experience for us.
As participants for the first time in Nasa Space Apps Challenges, we are happy with this experience in terms of benefiting from the lectures given in the early hours of the hackathon, organizing and coordinating the rooms to the fullest, and the supervision of observers and professors specialized in many fields, this experience benefited us in terms of gaining business spirit skills As a team in a short time to reach the best solutions to the challenges that NASA set for us, and if victory is not our ally, we are winners by the experiences we have gained and by attending an important event like this on the campus of the American University in Cairo, and of course we will strive to join this hackathon in the coming years and provide our best solutions .
References
https://1-a1072.azureedge.net/news/science/2021/5/21/%D9%84%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B0%D8%A7-%D8%A3%D8%B7%D9%84%D9%82-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D9%84%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%A1-%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%86%D8%A7%D8%B1-%D8%B9%D9%84%D9%89-%D8%AF%D8%A8-%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%A1
https://www.nasa.gov/
https://www.skynewsarabia.com/technology/1288755-%D9%83%D8%B4%D9%81-%D8%B3%D8%B1-%D8%A7%D9%94%D9%82%D9%88%D9%89-%D9%85%D8%AE%D9%84%D9%88%D9%82-%D9%88%D8%AC%D9%87-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%94%D8%B1%D8%B6-%D9%8A%D8%AA%D8%BA%D9%84%D8%A8-%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%86%D9%88%D9%88%D9%8A%D8%9F
Tags
#space #challenges #animals #cosmic rays #space bacteria #