session 1

Title

Space Architecture: technical aspects, design, engineering, concepts and mission planning

Description

The session welcomes papers on all aspects of the challenges of emplacing, sustaining, and growing accommodations for space habitation throughout the inner solar system: Earth orbits, Lagrange points, the Moon's surface, interplanetary space, Near Earth Objects, the moons of Mars, Mars' surface, and the asteroid Main Belt. These places share a need for basic protection against space radiation, vacuum, and thermal extremes, but vary widely in remoteness, proximity to gravity wells and resources, and socio-psychological impact. Architectural solutions, including pressurized volume, shielding, life support, food production, transportation access, and social accommodation will stretch concepts and technologies for space architecture. The session seeks papers on topics including, but not limited to: integration of architecture, structures, space systems, life-support systems, man-machine interfaces, and new technologies.

Date

2014-10-01

Time

09:45

Room

713B

IPC members

• Co-Chair: Dr. Olga Bannova, University of Houston, United States;

• Co-Chair: Mr. Brent Sherwood, Blue Origin LLC, United States;

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