HABITABILITY & HUMAN OPERATIONS DURING TERRESTRIAL ANALOGUE CAMPAIGNS: DOMMEX-ILEWG EUROMOONMARS
- Paper ID
6032
- author
- company
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA); Space Policy Institute, George Washington University; European Space Agency (ESA/ESTEC)
- country
United States
- year
2010
- abstract
We studied lessons from Moon-Mars terrestrial analogue campaigns conducted in the Utah Mars Desert Research Station [1] as part of DOMMEX-ILEWG GEOMOONMARS field tests (supported by ILEWG, NASA, ESA and academic partners). This analysis can contribute to informing concepts for a minimal Moon-Mars habitat, by focussing on the system aspects and coordinating different functional elements as part of an evolving architecture [2-8]. We analysed experimentally the Habitat and Laboratory ExoHab concept constraints during EuroGeoMars campaign in Utah desert research station (from 24 Jan. to 28 Feb. 2009) and DOMMEX-ILEWG EuroMoonMars (in Nov. 2009 and Jan-April 2010). We focus on habitability and human research performance issues, as well as scientific productivity. Results of the field tests and project justify the case for a scientific exploration outpost allowing in situ experiments and sample analysis in the outpost laboratory that are relevant to the origin and evolution of planets and life, geophysical and geo-chemical studies, astrobiology and life sciences, observational sciences, technology demonstration, resource utilization, human exploration and settlement. In this modular concept, we consider various infrastructure elements: core habitat, Extra Vehicular activity (EVA), crew mobility, energy supply, recycling module, communication, green house and food production, and operations. Many of these elements have already been studied in space agencies' architecture proposals, with landers, orbiters, rovers, and habitats. Considering surface operations, protocols will be specified in the use of certain elements. References:[1] http://desert.marssociety.org/MDRS.[2] ICEUM declarations sci.esa.int/ilewg [3] \Integrated Exploration Architecture", ESA, 2008. [4] 9th ILEWG ICEUM, 2007, sci.esa.int/ilewg [5] Schrunk et al , The Moon: Resources, Future Development and Colonization", 1999. [6] B.H. Foing, ASR 14 (6), 1994. [7] Anthony J. Hanford, Advanced Life Support, Baseline Values and Assumptions Document", 2004. [8] Foing, B.H. et al . (2009) LPI, 40, 2567. [9] Daily reports (crew 76, 77, 83, 86, 87,92) http://desert.marssociety.org/mdrs/fs08/. We acknowledge contributions from field crew, collaborators, and ILEWG Lunar Base/Terrestrial Analogue Task Groups members: C. Stoker(2,11)*#, P. Ehrenfreund(10,11), B.H. Foing(1,11)*, L. Wendt(8)*, C. Gross(8, 11)*, C. Thiel(9)*, S. Peters(1,6)*, A. Borst(1,6)*, J. Zavaleta(2)*, P. Sarrazin(2)*, D. Blake(2), J. Page(1,4,11), V. Pletser(5,11)*, E. Monaghan(1)*, P. Mahapatra(1)*, A. Noroozi(3), P. Giannopoulos(1,11) , A. Calzada(1,6,11), R. Walker(7), T. Zegers(1), ILEWG ExoGeoLab/ExoHab teams(1,4,11) EuroGeoMars team(1,4,5); 1)ESTEC/SRE-S Postbus 299, 2200 AG Noordwijk, NL, 2)NASA Ames , 3)Delft TU , 4)ESTEC TEC, 5)ESTEC HSF, 6)VU Amsterdam, 7) ESTEC Education O\__ce, 8)FU Berlin