# Presentation: 000710

## Engineering Deans’ Conference 2006

- Habitable Systems & Structures

## Topics

**Architecture & Habitation**
**Habitable Systems**
**Inflatable Structures**
**Thermal Control**
**Space Radiation**

## Architecture, Habitation & IntegrationKriss Kennedy

## Architecture, Habitation & Integration

_**Architecture, Habitation & Integration**_

**Lead and Support Architectural Studies and Assessments of Lunar/Mars Mission Planning**
**Lead Spacecraft Design and Analysis**
**Led the JSC Multi-Center Lunar Lander Design Team**
**Perform Systems Engineering Planning**
**Perform Technology Integration**
**Habitat Autonomy Test**
**Perform Integrated Tests and Evaluations**
**Manage the Advanced Integration Facility in B29**
**Lunar Habitat Mockups**
**Manage the Vertical Habitation Facility in B220**

## Habitation Systems 

_**Short Duration Mission**_ - For mission durations of a few days to couple of weeks, crews can share personal quarters by rotating shifts, as is done when the Space Shuttle carried Spacelab.
_**Medium Duration Mission**_ - For mission durations up to six months, crews require their own private personal quarters for sleeping as well as private recreation (reading and communication with relatives), and will require more volume for grooming and personal hygiene.
_**Long Duration Mission**_ - For mission durations of six months or more, crews essentially require all the necessary "comforts of home."

**Notes:**
Systems Integration is to perform system-level integration and integrated testing of technology products prior to delivery to the customer.  Testing of breadboards and prototypes will require a project test plan.  Test results will be provided in the Transition Package. 

## Historical Habitation Volumes

**Notes:**
Systems Integration is to perform system-level integration and integrated testing of technology products prior to delivery to the customer.  Testing of breadboards and prototypes will require a project test plan.  Test results will be provided in the Transition Package. 

## Space Habitation

_**CLASS I**_: Pre-integrated
_**CLASS II:**_ Pre-Fabricated – Space/Surface Assembled
_**CLASS III**_: In-Situ Derived and Constructed

**Notes:**
Take away message: SE&I is not just for flight hardware programs and projects. In fact SE&I is crucial to the successful infusion and transition of technology products that meets the needs of the customer on time.

## Habitation Elements & Interfaces

- External Systems

- Thermal Control

- Environmental Control & Life Support

- External Support Structure

- Airlock / EVA

**Notes:**
Systems Integration is to perform system-level integration and integrated testing of technology products prior to delivery to the customer.  Testing of breadboards and prototypes will require a project test plan.  Test results will be provided in the Transition Package. 

## Advanced Integration Facility (AIF)

- Ensure cross-cutting of systems integration and concepts, enabling technology, and flight demos
- Capable of providing end-to-     end testing of ECLS systems
- Improved habitat design
- Better living accommodations for the crew at Lunar Outpost

***Advanced Integration Facility (AIF) is a multi-chamber surface habitat simulator***

*B29 Habitability Lab – Horizontal Chambers*

## Horizontal Habitation Laboratory – B29

**Horizontal Habitation Laboratory – B29**

- B29 Fully outfitted laboratory.
- (Accommodates evaluations, validations, requirements, volumetric analysis, testing, etc)

**Horizontal Habitat Laboratory **

## Vertical Habitation Laboratory – B220

**Vertical Axis Habitat Laboratory**** **
- B220 Vertical Axis Mockup structure upgrades are in progress
- 24.6 ft dia x 3 stories

## Technical Challenges

- Technical Issues for Advanced Habitats include (but are not limited to):
- Develop _**composite structures**_ that can be deployed and operated in space and on planetary bodies for 10-20 year life time.
- Develop _**inflatable structures**_ that can be packaged, deployed and operated in space and on planetary bodies for 10-20 year life time.
- Develop _**ISRU-derived structures**_, manufacturing processes and construction techniques that can be packaged, deployed and operated in space and on planetary bodies for 10-20 year life time.
- Integrate diagnostic and _**habitat health monitoring**_ through out the habitat.
- Integrated _**self-repairing**_ skins for habitat structures.
- Integrated design techniques that _**incorporate advanced systems**_ into the habitat skin/structure and incorporates techniques to adjust resources within the habitat to automatically protect the crew based on the sensed environmental conditions

**Notes:**
Take away message: SE&I is not just for flight hardware programs and projects. In fact SE&I is crucial to the successful infusion and transition of technology products that meets the needs of the customer on time.

## Habitable SystemsRobert Howard

## Areas of Relevant Research

- Most spacecraft volumetric habitability studies are based on 1960s era research
- Significant opportunities for research in the area of long duration surface habitats
- What are the key volume drivers for human habitation on the Moon and Mars?
- Confinement
- Task allocation
- Maintenance
- Dust Mitigation and Removal
- Psychology
- Other?

**Human Confinement Studies**

## Areas of Relevant Research

- Low fidelity mockups are an inexpensive way to explore outpost architectures, system/subsystem design, habitability, assembly ops, and more aspects of the Lunar vision
- Student design teams can be tasked to develop lunar concepts that subsequent teams then turn into full-scale mockups
- Research units can conduct numerous studies utilizing mockups to advance NASA lunar concepts

**Lunar Mockup Studies**

## Inflatable StructuresGary R. Spexarth

## ISS TransHab

***ISS TransHab***

## TransHab Deployment Sequence

- Inflation

- Module
- Inflated

- Launch Package

## JSC Inflatable Structural Testing

- May 1998

- December 1998

- September 1998

## JSC Inflatable Folding Test

## Inflatable Structure Challenges

- Material properties after long-term exposure to the extreme environments of space
- Radiation
- Long-term loading (creep)
- Self-healing bladders
- Thermal insulation (multi-layer insulation) performance after being folded...covered with moon dust, etc.
- Integration of floors in a gravitational environment
- Re-location of subsystems, once inflated (plumbing and electrical lines, etc.)

## Thermal ControlDavid Wertheimer

## Active Thermal Control SystemsBackground

- Typically a pumped single phase fluid loop
- Acquire heat from air and equipment
- Transport heat within the vehicle
- Reject energy into space
- Common components include: air-liquid HXs, condensing HXs, flat plate HXs, cold plates, centrifugal pumps, radiators, sublimators, spray boilers, flow boilers

## Active Thermal Control Systems Challenges for the Future

- Long duration condensing heat exchangers
- Heat pumps for space applications
- Sublimators with longer operational lives
- Radiator performance on the Moon and Mars
- Coatings
- Temperature extremes
- Dust
- CO2 environments
- Micrometeoroid and orbital debris protection for radiators
- Long life components including pumps, quick disconnects, instrumentation, and valves

## Space RadiationTamra George

## The Space Radiation Analysis Group (SRAG) maintains a comprehensive set of codes and models allowing the rapid, precise evaluation of radiation exposures for design evaluation, mission/timeline planning, real-time evaluation and event mitigation, and flight support.

**Environmental Models **provide characterization of conditions encountered in space allowing a predictive rather than reactive position to be taken with regard to space radiation exposures.
**Radiation Transport **describes the interaction of radiation fields with matter, including the human body.  These models allow accurate characterization of the changes in radiation fields within structures (vehicles, habitats, etc.), enabling evaluation of time-and-location specific exposure profiles for astronauts in any mission phase.
**As-Built Design Evaluations** allow the prediction of radiation exposure in a way wholly consistent with the as-built hardware and thus the actual exposure scenario.  This coupling of precise transport and actual geometry allows a reliable reproducible characterization of exposure scenario, eliminating any uncertainty introduced by simplified or approximated shield geometry.
**Mission Optimization** is the optimization of trajectory and timeline in order to maintain radiation exposure As Low As Reasonably Achievable (ALARA) in accordance with NASA regulation and federal law.

## Left Pictures: ISS Node2 Element Images w/and w/o shielding applied

- Bottom Right Picture: CEV design analysis
- Bottom Left: Evaluation of ISS crew exposure for operations

## SRAG utilizes these codes and models for CEV analysis and operational concept design.  Shielding becomes more important for Lunar and Mars missions that are outside the Earth’s protective magnetosphere. Best opportunity for implementing ALARA inside vehicles and habitats is during the design process, allowing for operational flexibility.

**CHALLENGES:**
- Transport codes / nuclear physics of radiation interactions
- environment models
- real-time data correlations
- Neutron contributions to exposure within structures
- Human geometry / Exposure quantity definition (effective dose?)
**COLLABORATIONS:**
- Modeling and analysis supporting pro-active (planning) approach to radiation safety for space operations derived largely from the efforts of university collaborations.  Active collaborations:
- University of Tennessee
- University of Houston
- University of Milan, Italy
- CERN, Geneva
- SWRI (South-West Research Institute), Boulder Co.

## DISCUSSIONS

## Advanced Habitation Challenges

- Protection and Safety of Crew
- Micro-meteorite Protection
- Use Regolith or built-in shield?
- Radiation Protection
- Use Regolith, water, built-in shield, etc?
- Medical Health Care
- Psychology of Long-Term Confinement & Isolation
- Volume per Crew, Functional Spaces, Human Factors & Architecture
- Larger the better – but must account for launch vehicle and mass constraints.
- Advanced Materials for Structures
- Composites, Inflatables, In-Situ Resource Utilization (ISRU) Derived
- Vehicle/Habitat Health  Monitoring
- Long duration condensing heat exchangers
- Heat pumps for space applications
- Sublimators with longer operational lives
- Radiator performance on the Moon and Mars
- Coatings
- Temperature extremes
- Dust
- CO2 environments
- Micrometeoroid and orbital debris protection for radiators
- Long life components including pumps, quick disconnects, instrumentation, and valves

- Material properties after long-term exposure to the extreme environments of space
- Radiation
- Long-term loading (creep)
- Self-healing bladders
- Thermal insulation (multi-layer insulation) performance after being folded...covered with moon dust, etc.
- Integration of floors in a gravitational environment
- Structural & thermal interface contact with rocky surface
- Re-location of subsystems, once inflated (plumbing and electrical lines, etc.)
- How much volume is really required
- Pressurized vs Habitable
- Design layouts / Habitability – Inexpensive Mockups
- Radiation:
- Transport codes / nuclear physics of radiation interactions
- environment models
- real-time data correlations
- Neutron contributions to exposure within structures
- Human geometry / Exposure quantity definition (effective dose?)