session 3

Title

Human Habitation Beyond Low Earth Orbit

Description

The session welcomes papers on all aspects of the challenges of emplacing, sustaining, and growing accommodations for human habitation at diverse inner solar system destinations: high earth orbits, Lagrange points, planetary orbits, the Moon's surface, Near Earth Objects, the moons of Mars, Mars' surface, and free space. These places share characteristics of the need for basic protection from radiation, vacuum, and thermal conditions in space, but vary widely in their remoteness, proximity to natural bodies and resources, and socio-psychological impact. Their needs for architectural solutions, including pressurised volume, shielding, life support techniques, food production, transportation access, and social accommodation will stretch concepts and technologies for space architecture.

Date

2012-10-04

Time

10:15

Room

TS17 (Sala Corsica, Palacongressi)

IPC members

• Chairman: Mr. Brent Sherwood, Blue Origin LLC, United States;

• Chairman: Dr. Olga Bannova, University of Houston, United States;

• Rapporteur: Dr. Anna Barbara Imhof, Liquifer Systems Group (LSG), Austria;