NASA Awarded Five Teams $100,000 in 3D-Printed Habitat Competition
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- NASA's Centennial Challenges: 3D-Printed Habitat Challenge
The 3D-Printed Habitat Challenge was a NASA’s Centennial Challenges program competition to build a 3D-printed habitat for deep space exploration, including the agency’s journey to the Moon, Mars or beyond. The multi-phase challenge was designed to advance the construction technology needed to create sustainable housing solutions for Earth and beyond. The competition, completed in 2019, awarded a total of $2,061,023.
Phase 1, the Design Competition, required teams to submit architectural renderings and was completed in 2015. ($50,000 prize purse/$40,000 awarded)
Phase 2, the Structural Member Competition, focused on material technologies, requiring teams to create structural components. It was completed in 2017. ($1.1 million prize purse/$701,000 awarded)
Phase 3 the On-Site Habitat Competition, completed in 2019, challenged competitors to fabricate sub-scale habitats, and had five levels of competition - three construction levels and two virtual levels. For the virtual levels, teams used Building Information Modeling software to design a habitat that combined allowances for both the structure and systems it must contain. The construction levels challenged the teams to autonomously 3D-print elements of the habitat, culminating with a one-third-scale printed habitat for the final level. ($3.15M prize purse/ $2M awarded)
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00:00 ● Intro
00:14 ● Intro Video: Foster + Partners
Foster + Partners New York’s design for a modular habitat on Mars has been shortlisted amongst 30 finalists for the 3D Printed Habitat Challenge
organised by America Makes and NASA.
The design outlines plans for a settlement on Mars constructed by an array of pre-programmed, semi-autonomous robots prior to the eventual arrival of the astronauts. The design of the habitat - carried out in collaboration with industrial and academic partners - envisions a robust 3D-printed dwelling for up to four astronauts constructed using regolith - the loose soil and rocks found on the surface of Mars. The proposal considers multiple aspects of the project from delivery and deployment to construction and operations. The habitat will be delivered in two stages prior to the arrival of the astronauts.
NASA Awarded Five Teams $100,000 in 3D-Printed Habitat Competition as below:
The Winners
01:48 ● 5. Northwestern University
The fifth place was awarded to a team from Northwestern University, in Evanston, Ill., for its straightforward 3D-printing process. The housing pod features an inflatable, dome-shaped pressure vessel that provides the form over which the 3D printer will output an outer parabolic dome.
06:22 ● 4. SEArch+/Apis Cor
New York-based Space Exploration Architecture (SEArch+) and Russian hardware startup Apis Cor were awarded the fourth place for their X-House proposal, a dual-shell housing module inspired by Alvar Aalto's Church of the Assumption of Mary, in Riola di Vergato, Italy. Constructed from materials harvested from the Martian surface, the X-House is designed to protect the residents from galactic cosmic radiation.
10:35 ● 3. Kahn Yates
A team made up of Detroit-based architecture firm Albert Kahn Associates and Jackson, Miss., office of Yates Construction came in third place with a proposal designed to withstand the red planet's inhabitable climate and dust storms. The proposal features a five-axis print arm that would extend from the top of a prefabricated core to print the module's foundation and perforated concrete shell using local materials. Concurrently, secondary printing nozzles will begin making a protective shell using high-density, petroleum-based polyethlene thermoplastic that is known for its high strength-to-density ratio.
14:27 ● 2. AI. SpaceFactory
The second place went to New York-based AI. SpaceFactory for its Marsha habitat, a vertical, double-shell, cylindrical structure 3D printed with "a vertically telescoping arm attached to a stationary rover," according to the team's website. By mixing basalt fiber extracted from Martian rocks with biodegradable thermoplastic derived from plants grown on Mars, the team has developed a recyclable printing material.
19:12 ● 1. Team Zopherus
First place was awarded to a team from Rogers, Ark., for its Zopherus modular habitat. The design features an autonomous moving robot with an integrated printer chamber that seals to the ground and 3D prints hexagonal structures in its pressurized interior cabin, using materials extracted from the Martian surface, all without any human interference.
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Step 11: founding of the Adeptus Mechanicus.
Why did you say "Mars is the nearest planet to Earth?" Venus is 10 million miles closer to Earth than Mars at its closest distance.
Marsha is build by engneers the rest by designers :D
Let's send one to the moon and see if it works. 5y plan ?
Yeah i have to agree the marsha one seems more feasible than the rest
All it needs is inflatable and or printable tunnel sections to join multiple habs together, it also seems like the Marsha design could be scaled up into a even larger structure later on with little alteration beyond adding more floors and some floorspace adjustments, and using PLA mixed with basalt fiber is brilliant, you can make the PLA onsite and recycle old structures as needed, and repairs could be carried out with hand tools loaded with the PLA-Basalt mix which will be easy with the inner and outer shell separated and will likely be more reliable than Marscrete.
And the Pure PLA on it's own will be invaluable in making anything else they want as it's a well understood and popular matirial and doesn't produce any nasty fumes. (Matirials like ABS produce toxic fumes in printing that stinks, bad for a sealed habitat)
@@UNSCPILOT A bit like Cal-Earth have done with their earth bag homes and vaults etc.
What energies are used to built the zurfus habitat ?
Thanks for your help.
These are overly complicated. Elon Musk started a boring company, not to bore high speed tunnels but to live underground on Mars. There is little natural light on Mars anyway, we need to figure out how to set up nuclear power on Mars, for food production.
The great minds of the future aren't holding back! Thanks Nasa. 😍
What's with the robotic voices? I did enjoy the Nimoy voice, however.
The vertical one seems miles ahead the best (like I know anything about it!)
But it won 1. place from NASA and $500k
indeed, looks like the only one who cares about aesthetic, who wants to live in a bunker anyway
By the way you might want to check which is the closest planet to Earth?
Ceramic tile flooring in the washrooms;, great, i guess tile manufacture will be in place before colony ship arrives. Why do these presentations remind me of design school projects?
Because they are
Most likely, a habitat would be constructed by tunneling into the side of a crater or cliff, then lining it with impermeable material to retain atmosphere. This would provide a safe rock cover to block radiation, and would not require the provision of much in the way of materials.
I've seen a movie where they had such technology but yes brilliant idea 😉
Just curious. Would dyeing/painting these structures in Vanta Black assist in thermal gathering in a passive sense?
Also, if enough structures could be built, but colored in Vanta Black, what number would be need to passively heat the surrounding martian terrain to an appreciable degree?
In terms of a potential dome city, even the delta of a single degree increase could be helpful.
wouldn't the habitat have problems shedding heat as it is? Very thin atmosphere helps retain heat. Spacecraft have even more trouble shedding heat in orbit without an atmosphere.
@@brookestephen , if it were in a vacuum, I suppose that would be an issue overall.
That said, even so, heat likes to radiate in all directions.
A thin atmosphere, would still allow for the buoyancy effect of heat rising that we see here on earth.
Your question is a good one, and my thinking is that your question merits exploration via experimentation.
Q: Why the horrible music? Q: Did an adult review this video prior to release? Best of luck!
The music was OK; it cleared my ear wax.
this is the legendary fourth comment :D
interesting - though a little too much annoying voiceover littered with pointless ergonomic terms and a bit sparse on useful information -- ie how much of what needs to be transported from earth and what is sourced in-situ comparativly -- as far as i can tell the first two are sort of bigelow type inflatable pressure vessels basically prefab on earth with the mars regolith basically an independant radiation shield - the last 3 are more ambitious with possibly the last landing a re-usable building robot. They still all seem to use a thermoplastic feedstock (sourced from earth presumably) - i wonder which ones appeal to elon - as he is the most likely contender to make it to mars in the next decade - as these companies will be long dead before/if nasa get there.
Every 3D printed solution depends on consistent and fluid-like regolith consistency (particle size & grain/chemical consistency). I did not see any provisions for processing for grading/processing of the regolith except for the A team from Rogers, Arkansas for “Zophyrus modular habitat”. Their initial regolith processing looks good, but a demonstration is in order, and that processes would feed all 3D printing models regardless of which one is chosen. MHO I would build the shelters, and cover them. If you have studied the sand dunes on Mars there is quite a bit of sand moving around the planet from regular to wind-storm seasons.
A hole boring process that uses regolith excavation transport as a grading process may solve multiple problems. Underground portions of the structure will experience less heating/cooling so insulating the structure walls is important. The only exposed portion would be the tip that exposes the Light Pipe that extends to the bottom of the underground construct. Light regulation would be with panels that block the light, or is removed to permit the light to come into the space. Plumbing, electrical, and other common structure facilities would run along the Light Pipe down the middle of the facility.
Many of the designs seem to infer if not directly show rover transport airlock connections. This will take a very capable Rover that can move in a micro-movement capability for airlock alignment, and seal check.
I didn't see a cable layer for connection of disparate modules. The RF datalink is fine until . . . it's no longer fine. Need a hardwire backup.
interesting that only one solution actually gives shuttable doors to the rooms - can't have architectural beauty destroyed by actual practicality can we. I f you have people stuck in close proximity being able to sgut evryone else out with a door occasionaly would be a lifesaver and psychological necessity. And also the ridiculous notion of children on mars in the forseeable future -- 1/3 gravity - what would that do to their body development - and would they ever be able to go back to earth..
They could train like astronauts on iss do
@@azmoh4515 i have no evidence - and hopefully someone who knows could comment - however i suspect that growing up in a high gravity and then dipping into low - is intrinsically different to growing up in low gravity and trying to cope with high gravity - not every mars child would want to be a 'bodybuilder' also gravity probably has a pervasive effect on how your body grows - ie would they end up tall with weak bones - i'm sure i've seen something about mice with the 'bodybuilder' gene alteration/defect? being grown on the space station for muscle mass experiments.
@@tonyug113 long term yes, it could be a problem. If in 200 years, when genetic programming is more available, who knows? people might be able "made" for space, or a particular planet.
Martian and Yates are my favorites
"inspired by nature/biology" is the space housing buzzword. Any proposal with the phrase should have automatically lost.
can not be done in a zero or near zero atmo. childern...stay in school! and water would vaporize desublimate and freeze. May be good for a movie. we are doomed if this is the best we have to offer.
Venus gets as close to Earth as 38 million km, and Mars gets as close as 55.7 million km.
Mars is NOT the nearest planet to earth, the first line of text in your video.
so you just took a bunch of other people's videos and mashed them together, and fucked the audio and video up enough to not get flagged for copyright.