Designing Future Space Habitats

Editor’s note: This guest post was written by Andy Tomaswick, an electrical engineer who follows space science and technology. If humans are planning on spending any significant amount of time on the surface of another planet in the solar system, they’re going to need a specially made habitat to live in. Developing a prototype of [...]

NASA Habitat Module. Credit: NASAEditor’s note: This guest post was written by Andy Tomaswick, an electrical engineer who follows space science and technology.If humans are planning on spending any significant amount of time on the surface of another planet in the solar system, they’re going to need a specially made habitat to live in. Developing a prototype of that habitat is the goal of the NASA Advanced Exploration Systems Habitation Systems project, which sponsors the annual eXploration Habitat (X-Hab) challenge. To achieve this, NASA and the National Space Grant Foundation solicited ideas for module design ideas from universities back in March. On May 30th, the X-Hab challenge organizers selected 5 university teams to participate in the competition. The winning teams and their research concepts are:(...)Read the rest of Designing Future Space Habitats (175 words)© nancy for Universe Today, 2012. | Permalink | No comment ...