학술논문
Vertical Habitability Layout Studies and Neutral Buoyancy/Parabolic Flight Habitat Studies
Document Type
Report
Author
David L. Akin; Katherine McBryan; Christopher Carlsen; Nicholas Limparis; Nicholas D'Amore; Matthew Adams; Colin Adamson; Ashok Bhattarai; Irene Borillo Llorca; Brianna Brassard; Rajarshi Chattopadhyay; Kyle Cloutier; Alexander Downes; Charl Du Toit; Matthew Feeney; Kevin Ferguson; Samuel Garay; Irving Garcia; Kurt Gonter; Donald Gregorich; Matthew Horowitz; Michal Kantzer; Jennifer King; Chandan Kittur; Douglas Klein; Rubbel Kumar; Sahin Kunnath; Sarin Kunnath; Edward Levine; Benjamin Mellman; Atin Mittra; Ryan Moran; Brooks Muller; Oliver Ortiz; William Ouyang; Pegah Pashai; Mihir Patel; Brandyn Phillips; Nitin Raghu; Michael Schaffer; Mark Schneider; Michael Shallcross; Daniel Todaro; Cody Toothaker; Mazi Wallace; Kristy Weber; Kyle Zittle; Lauren Walter; Luke Hoerning; Paige Pruce; Nathan Wagner; Grant Thompson; Katie Barbor; Karenna Buco; Jiaqi Jiang; Andrew Desrochers; Nicholas Seiler; Nicole Armstrong; Lisa Krayer
Source
Subject
Language
English
Abstract
In the Summer of 2013, the University of Maryland was selected for two projects under the NASA X-Hab 2014 program, administered by the National Space Grant Foundation: Vertical Habitability Layout Studies (XHab201406) and Neutral Buoyancy/Parabolic Flight Habitat Studies (XHab201407). This document, at the direction of the NASA Technical Monitor, comprises the final report for both of these contracts. Recognizing from the outset the mismatch between the desired scope of research activities under the contracts and the severely limited funding and duration, the University of Maryland leveraged the X-Hab support by integrating the programs into a number of academic classes throughout the 2013-2014 academic year. By far the most significant interaction was with the Department of Aerospace Engineering Senior capstone experience in spacecraft design sequence, ENAE 483/484. Throughout the academic year, 42 students in this sequence worked on both projects in conjunction with their senior project to design an artificial gravity research station in a distant lunar retrograde orbit. As part of this research project, the students worked with previously created 1-G habitats and underwater simulations to better understand habitat design from microgravity to full Earth gravity, as well as at lunar and Mars gravity levels between those two endpoints.