My reading about how our government works suggests that being too specific and telling you what it really will cost, scares the politicians that don't want to be blamed for spending the money to do the job right. If money is tight, cost estimates can keep an agenda from getting out of committee. That means you might just talk about one piece of the journey at a time in hopes that it will be funded.
When we thought we were going to go back to the Moon to stay and to do the things that would make that possible, folks got excited and started working on how to actually make it happen.
Going to the ISS has not developed a closed-loop habitat as much as I thought it would. It is too easy to take the garbage back or dump it into space. We have to continually take up consumables. When you talk about living on the Moon, you know you are going to have to learn how to do better at recycling. That is something we could be doing more of here on mother Earth as well.
I think that the more we continue to plan for going to the Moon and the more we test what we can here on Earth, the more we will be able to keep the ideas in front of the public. Politicians need to have solutions waiting for problems to present themselves. If you say today you want to go to the Moon, you had better be prepared to support that with ways you can show that it can be done.
Take a look at what is being done at the International Space University.
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http://www.isunet.edu/
Welcome to the International Space University
http://www.isunet.edu/index.
Student Reports
http://www.isunet.edu/index.
Success Stories - ISU
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SAFEN EARTH: space aid for energy needs on Earth
ACCESS Mars: Assessing Cave Capabilities Establishing Specific Solutions
DREAM: Disaster Risk Evaluation And Management
FuturIST: Future Infrastructure for Space Transportation
VAPOR: Volcanic Activity:processing of Observation and Remote sensing data
and see 'more' at bottom for the link to 'LUNA GAIA: a closed-loop
habitat for the moon '
http://www.isunet.edu/index.
SSP 06 Strasbourg (France) - Student report
The Luna Gaia posits a pathway towards new technologies, philosophies, systems applications and infrastructure aimed at achieving a closed loop habitat model for human settlement on the Moon. Luna Gaia design solutions focus on the coupling power for all regenerative processes of a network of closed loop life support. Using proven and innovative solutions that produce relatively independent and highly reliable cycles of oxygen, water, energy, food growth and waste processing, the modular, hybrid bioregenerative network of systems particular to the Luna Gaia design architecture is ambitious but feasible.
Thie report also details ethical and philosophical considerations of lunar settlement and the wider implications for international law, policy and future interplanetary social governance.
Executive summary|
http://www.isunet.edu/index.
Full report| http://www.isunet.edu/index.
Request a copy --- Email copy request
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Dr. Sarah Jane Pell participated in the SSP 06 team project - L U N A G A I A - A CLOSED LOOP HABITAT FOR THE MOON.
She is an Artist, Researcher and Commercial Diver and has some interesting presentations.
If you can't go immediately to the Moon, you can go under water.
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http://www.sarahjanepell.com/
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Humans experience many coexistent and contrary needs in relation to any given space. We have a desire for socialising, communicating and being close to others and, in direct contrast, we desire privacy, individuality and opportunities for meditation and creativity. I am practice-based performance researcher and I explore these issues and how they signify human patterns, rituals, behaviours and performances of day-to-day life through my laboratories and further imagine how they relate as a space analogue missions.
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You aren't going to go to space alone and you need to know how to get along with each other in a closed environment.
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http://www.sarahjanepell.com/
L U N A G A I A
A CLOSED LOOP HABITAT FOR THE MOON
SSP O6 Team Project, International Space University, Strasbourg
Luna Gaia posits a pathway to new technologies, philosophies, systems applications and infrastructure aimed at achieving a closed loop habitat model for human settlement on the moon. The framework supports an ideal profile for an optimum of 11 human crewmembers on the lunar surface for a period of 18-36 months. This presentation outlines the recommendations on the overall systems architecture, the engineering processes, as well as the research, development and orchestration of separately phased precursor missions by the year 2030. The Luna Gaia design solution focuses on optimizing the synergy between all regenerative processes of a network of closed loop life support systems. It also details the ethical and philosophical considerations of a lunar settlement and the wider implications for international law, policy and future interplanetary governance. Advancement of earth-based application of these processes are highlighted and strategies for effective information transfer and handling through education, media communication, outreach and advancement of futures research.
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Do take look at her website. Much information about her projects.
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http://www.sarahjanepell.com/
THE CULTURE OF SPACE
http://www.sarahjanepell.com/
THE ART OF LIVING SYSTEMS
http://www.sarahjanepell.com/
L U N A G A I A
A CLOSED LOOP HABITAT FOR THE MOON
http://www.sarahjanepell.com/
Neutral Buoyancy
http://www.sarahjanepell.com/
H Y D R O M E D U S A
Undersea to Outer Space
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Down under as well as above. :-)
Thanks for looking up with me.
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