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gfe7

Hello:

We are students from Olinca

Cuernavaca in Mexico, our

teacher is miss. Dheming, we are

on 7th grade.

INTRODUCTIONGood day ladies and gentleman, we are here to explain our project to you. The project is called “Lunar Quest Outpost Design Challenge” which consists of us planning ways of how to build a station on the moon, with all the necessary things like food, heat, oxygen, etc.We must investigate places on the moon which will have advantages like direct light, we will also discover more about lunar materials and manners of retrieving oxygen from minerals. This are the main things of our project, the rest is up to you for finding it out.

The Moon• The Moon is the astronomical object closest to the Earth.

The 20 of July of 1969, Neil Armstrong became the first man who stepped on the floor of the Moon. The lunar gravity is sixth the terrestrial gravity; a man who weighs about 82 kilograms (180 pounds) in the Earth will weigh only 14 kilograms (30 pounds) in the Moon. The Moon is to 384.403 kilometers from the Earth. Its diameter is 3.476 kilometers. The rotation of the Moon around the Earth lasts 27 days, 7 hours and 43 minutes. The Moon strongly was bombed in its early history. The impacts brought to light lunar rocks located to great depth and distributed their fragments on ample moved away zones of their origin, doing them more accessible. The Moon shines reflecting the light of the Sun and shows its characteristic phases during each orbit around the Earth.

*The construction We plan to use the moonlit dust called regolitus, which is

composed by a fifth of metals and a fifth of sicilyum. The dust can be used because it contains metals, for the construction of the foundations of the base. The regolitus can also be used to build solar cells, so the base will attract light naturally. However it must be covered preferably by being plastic reinforced with carbon fiber because it is a very light and very resistant material.

*Oxygen, water and fuel Watching carefully, there were found concentrations of a

mineral called ilmenita on the moon. This is a mineral which is rich in titanium and iron oxide, from which oxygen could be easily extracted to provide air, water and fuel to the astronauts. These concentrations from ilmenita were found by Hubble satellite in the Aristarco crater, near where Apollo 15 and 17 landed on their preview missions.

*The food This is a hard topic to explain, because the food would

float on the ship and it would be too hard to grab it and eat it. What was done before is that food was sent on tooth paste recipients, but on this day you can’t risk the shipment’s system getting food into it. Most of the food is sent packed in cans or in ball shapes to occupy less weight and space and prevent them from decomposing. Astronauts rehidrate this food on board of the ship with hot water; and sometimes, they get fresh fruit and vegetables sent from Earth in modules or with robots.

*The communication You can communicate in space through a radio, since its

waves are capable to travel in space. All you have to do is to align the ship of communication center and the base on Earth with precision and you can have clear communication.

*The transportation We plan to use a vehicle similar to a car and can travel

through the entire moon. We can leave the station and do research on the surface of the moon. Preferably, it will be an aerial vehicle, so it can go fast and not get stuck on parts of the moon.

The space suits To be able to walk on the moon without problems, we will

use space suits for it when we are on its surface doing investigation.

The bathrooms Water won’t be able to float in the bathroom because, as

explained before, the station will be located on the Eros Crater, where there is a part of the Moon’s contained atmosphere and where we will introduce oxygen.

Lunar environment Lunar environment is quite different to Earth’s, because

they have differences in size of their mass as well to their atmospheric pressure and the strength of their magnetic fields. Compared to Earth, the moon is seismically stable; another difference is that the magnetic field on the Moon is a remnant from an extinct magnetism source. Also the Moon is colder because the Sun hits the Earth directly and gets more heat.

Pros and cons of Eros crater All the advantages of the Eros crater are that it is on the

part of the Moon with atmosphere and it is well protected by a sub-level under the moonlit surface. A huge disadvantage is that radiation could pass through the structure of the Moon and wouldn’t be completely protected.

Energy We plan to use only solar energy for heating ourselves

and keeping our food without decomposing, also to use it for all our electronic devices to work correctly. We will use it also for the light on the station.

Radiation This could be a real problem, because our station could

be seriously hit by the oblivion’s radiation and who knows it could happen, but we consider that if we cover the whole station with lead paint, radiation won’t affect our facilities.

Garbage We have considered that if we make organic composts

on the lunar soil, we shall have no problems with garbage by bad smell and dirty parts of the station.

Gym Because muscles can deform and weaken if you keep

out of exercise in a long time, we want to build a gym so the people living on the station don’t get weak without any type of work out.

Entertainment On the “games” room we will put basic stuff like TV’s,

board games, videogames, book shelves, everything a human needs to entertain so they don’t get under too much pressure by doing work, I mean for them to relax when they have available time.

Medicine laboratory In this station, there MUST be an area where injured and

sick people can be treated; otherwise there would be no reason to go to the moon without safety in the station in case something happens to you.

Dimensions:Here we send the dimensions from our base, there are two floors.

Finally, after several days of investigating and of working hard, the project finished. Leaving us an ample knowledge about how can the people could live in the moon, its necessities and how to solve them. Many problems appeared and we solved them and we learned to work in equipment and to value those things that in the Earth we have, that are essentials to live, which other places don’t have.We enjoyed very much this project and hoped that you also had enjoyed along with us. We hope that there’s another project of this type to continue learning. Thank you very much Mpp7, rcg7, gfe7

Bibliography:www.wikipedia.comwww.astroseti.org www.astronomiaonline.com http://www.solarviews.com/span/moon.htmNote: Most of the information was found in Spanish and was translated to English.