Selection of R&D Activities: a Telchnology Relevance Model
- Paper number
IAC-04-U.P.04
- Author
Dr. Marco Guglielmi, European Space Agency (ESA)/ESTEC, The Netherlands
- Year
2004
- Abstract
The league of New World has announced two forthcoming missions Atlantica I (2009) and II (2012). Under the leadership of Dennis Chamberland, the profile for expedition I has crews preparing for 80days of continuous undersea human habitation. On 01 May 2009 - all conditions permitting – three permanent crew will commence the longest undersea durational mission ever attempted in a custom-built facility called the Leviathan Habitat for submersion off the coast of Florida. Expedition II envisages a permanent undersea occupation of 12 people occupying the Challenger Station habitat as the world’s largest undersea habitat and first undersea human community.
Atlantica synchronises with the many post 2004 US Vision for Space Exploration missions. The potential knowledge transfer of these missions is timely. Atlantica provides an opportunity for testing innovative social, political and human models towards the permanent colonisation of non-terrestrial spaces for instance. By referencing prior Antarctica and International Space Station art, the mission requirements of Atlantica can employ best practice, new technology and innovative concepts beyond exploration toward occupation at a much reduced risk and cost to current benchmarks whilst significantly furthering undersea and space-related priorities.
The timeliness of the precursor expedition (I) towards permanent undersea colonisation (II), also enable the team to test, develop and refine strategies, tools and principals for the communication, dissemination and articulation of extreme environment missions and their conceptualisations. For instance, an international crew of 24 people will rotate in five day visits to support the core aquanauts and service the wider objectives of the project. This team includes experienced scientists, engineers, astronauts, aquanauts, educators, filmmakers and an artist intent on actively engaging the wider public in the project.
As Atlantica’s first artist/Aquanaut crewmember, the author will present five artistic strategies adapting new technologies for interfacing with, and extending the human experience of Atlantica. These strategies will focus on the directive to promote the responsible stewardship of the environment through the use of clean, autonomous life supports, responsible collaboration, infrastructures and systems development. The artist/Aquanaut will also provide examples of prior extreme environment artistic research and its various modes of publication, exhibition, broadcast and outreach.
This presentation posits the Atlantica mission as an innovative platform for discussing new educational and outreach strategies as an analogue to future outer space habitat missions. The intention is to best prepare, and inspire, the imaginations of new audiences, and therefore new contributors, towards future habitation of non-terrestrial spaces. www.underseacolony.com
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