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| ID No : | 57 Edit | Title: | Analysis of Inflating Habitable Space Structures with Neomass (Near-Earth-Object Mass) |
| Summary / Review : |
Inflatable habitats from near Earth asteroids ("objects"), NEOs, which shows how to make large habitats in space from launching little material from Earth and using space resources, relatively easily. From the author's abstract: "... This analysis examines ways to use the NEO mass to construct space vehicles that address and begin to solve the three fundamental issues preventing massive human residence in space: Galactic Cosmic Radiation (GCR), zero gravity and confined spaces.
"The proposed vehicle would launch thin envelopes, somewhat like bladder molds, into which mass from space would be injected. The mass from space would solidify into the desired space vehicle. The structural materials included ice and brick, which are both available on NEOs. The encelope materials included steel and plastic. "The analysis then examined how many living spaces the resulting vehicle would provide as a function of the launched mass. It quantified the tensile stress imposed on teh structure due to the vehicle rotation and concluded that ice and bricks both can provide the desired mechanical properties. It quantified the amount of mass required both from space and launched from Earth. We concluded that envelopes with masses in the range between about 1 and 150 tons can provide living spaces for 20 to 3000 people and require between 1,700 and 25,000 tons from space." - MP |
| Author(s) : |
Zuppero, Anthony, [Idaho National Engineering Laoratory, MS 3810, Idaho Falls,Idaho 83415] Linarez-Royce, Nancy, [Idaho National Engineering Laoratory, MS 3810, Idaho Falls,Idaho 83415] Whitman, Pat, [University of Southwestern Louisiana, Box 4210, Lafayette LA70504] |
| Publication Type : | Paper within a Parent compilation, or Presentation at a Professional conference |
| Parent Publication : | Engineering, Construction and Operations in Space 4, proceedings of 4th International Conference onSpace '94, Volume I, published by American Society of Civil Engineers, New York, NY, 1994. |
| Publication Date: | 1994 |
| Pages : | 247-256 |
| # of References : | 3 |
| Category(s) : |
Life / Habitats and biospherics Bases, industry and manufacturing / Construction and structures / Inflatable |
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| Submitted by : | Mark Evan Prado |
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