High-Level Project Summary
Our project focuses mainly on facing the challenges that prevent scientists from exploring space like radiation, the AO effect, and temperature changes and making superhero with special features from different living organisms which face these challenges in space .It solves the challenge by making a product that is composed of lightweight magnetic shields that can face AO and temperature changes as well as being coated by isolation material. it is important as it will use available material to help scientists explore space.
Link to Final Project
Link to Project "Demo"
Detailed Project Description
Our project is split into two parts. The first part is designing a digital platform that shows the challenges and environmental stresses of space travel that people face in space exploration, for example, radiation, atomic oxygen, and vacuum, and how people deal with these challenges to do professional work and be comfortable in isolation cases. In the second part, after making the platform that shows challenges, we want to make a space biology superhero-like living organism with unique features to overcome the obstacles. For an example of these organisms, the tardigrade avoids pressure. It saves the body of the organism from the vacuum and high and low temperatures of space with silica gel-based aerogels. This material has micropores with thermal insulation properties. One of the special properties of a chosen organism is a unique protein for its resiliency, known as a "damage suppressor." We will add these properties to the shape of Pleiadean light ships so they can spin around their axes. We make the 3D design to show an idea of shape with Tinkercad. The superhero will be provided with macro cameras and eavesdropping devices to explore the space and discover the living organisms and their sounds.
Space Agency Data
We took most of the information about the challenges that living organisms face during space flights from NASA, which helped us immensely in our project. A PDF book from NASA allowed us to understand most of the challenges better.
We also found useful information on the Canadian Space Agency about how our bones and muscles react to microgravity and altered gravity.
There was also much information about Tardigrades (water bears), which was the main inspiration for our project.
A better understanding of challenges helps us to build the superhero.
Hackathon Journey
It was a great experience as we learned how to develop an appropriate solution to challenges that face scientists. Various things inspired us to take on this challenge, as it combines different categories like astrophysics and biology. As a diverse team, it helped each one of us apply what we knew, ending with a solution that could deal with different challenges even if there was no relation between them. As usual, research is our way to find a solution, but it is not only about research; it is about how we research, as we focus more on the applicable and useful things instead of committing to useless and inapplicable solutions. Through the development of this project, we could experience our skills in real life and help discover our fantastic world. After all this, we want to thank NASA for all the materials and resources they gave us.
References
https://www.Wix.com
https://www.nasa.gov/hrp/5-hazards-of-human-spaceflight
https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/atoms/files/radiationchallenge.pdf
https://www.nasa.gov/centers/hq/library/find/bibliographies/Long-Term_Challenges_to_Human_Space_Exploration
https://science.nasa.gov/biological-physical/programs/space-biology
https://www.nasa.gov/johnson/HWHAP/water-bears-in-space
https://www.asc-csa.gc.ca/eng/astronauts/space-medicine/muscles.asp
https://www.asc-csa.gc.ca/eng/astronauts/space-medicine/bones.asp
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0092867420314574#:~:text=The%20features%20include%20oxidative%20stress,length%20alterations%2C%20and%20microbiome%20shifts.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6471134/
Tags
#biological features #animals