Inflatable Moon Habitat with greenhouse, funded by ESA (Open Space Innovation Platform)

This novel lunar habitat design for the polar regions is based on a study funded by ESA´s ( European Space Agency) OSIP program.
Instead of building or printing a base on the Moon, Astronauts rather could inflate their habitat.
The ultralight prefabricated inflatable structure covered with several meters of loose regolith for protection from micrometeorites and cosmic radiation. A mirror that rotates towards the sun reflects the useful spectrum of natural sunlight into a greenhouse for self-sufficient production of food and oxygen.
The structure is modular. Several modules can form a large Moonbase or even Moon village
In regard of low payload, protection from cosmic radiation and low energy requirement this is the most efficient concept presented until now.
also find information on : moonhabitat.space
Authors:
Thomas Herzig: Architect specialized in inflatable structures
www.pneumocell.com
Gabor Bihari: Physicist
Norbert Kömle: Astrophysicist
Also view our MARS HABITAT video, that was the predecessor of this design :
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Contact :
Thomas Herzig
Weyringergasse 29/17, 1040 Vienna, Austria
Phone: [phone]
[e-mail]
www.pneumocell.com
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[@alexdesousa7966]

This is the most detailed, down to earth and realistic demonstration I've ever come across of habitation on the Moon, which must be taken into consideration that if humans want to survive on the Moon they must be underground protected from radiation by regolith.

[@smay81]

Thanks for that very inspiring presentation. It perfectly conveys the vision of a beautiful biologic environment flooded by natural light, providing shelter and mental uplift in the loneliness of the grey deserted lunar surface. It’s exactly what’s needed to boldly go where no one has gone before…

[@lyricaltraveller]

With the air pressure at such a low level, whatever amount of O2 you supply, the O2 will lift and congregate on the ceilings leaving non breathable air on the floor. This could have benefits. Bacteria and molds will not be able to live at lower levels of the hab. Negatives mean that sleeping area will have to be lifted. On Earth, Oxygen is interspersed evenly throughout the atmosphere because of gravity at 1g and the pressure of the atmosphere at sea level. With the Moon being at such a low gravity, and with the pressure lowered, Oxygen will gravitate to the tops of the habitat. It also must be noted that Apolo 1 serves as a very good reminder as to why an overly oxygen rich environment is dangerous.

[@thomasherzig174]

only CO2 is a considerably heavier than Nitrogen and oxygen. But it will not exceed 1%. content of the air. Furthermore it will not accumulate on the floor for the same reason why this does not happen on Earth. The air is in permanent movement. Lower gravity even helps the gases to remain mixed. We have fans installed on the ceiling of the greenhouse the blow air through the heat convectors that transfer excess heat from the greenhouse to the radiator outside. I am aware of the apollo 1 accident. But there the content of oxygen was 100% at 15% above atmospheric pressure. We only have 35% at half atmospheric pressure. and we have humidity in the greenhouses. On Earth in the carboniferous age the atmospheric content was 35% as well at higher pressure than now.

[@user-nz6ug4ru8f]

- Firstly, thanks for sharing this presentation. It's awesome, detailed and much more elaborated than most concepts I've seen recently. - Secondly, I share your view that a park in a lunar habitat has other functions than biomass/crop production. That's why it's my opinion that a park habitat and a crop habitat should be optimized in different ways. - Thirdly, I realize that as an architect the concept is the principal objective. Nevertheless as a tangent remark, I would like to indicate a few things about artificial ecosystems. Most ecosystems rely on the cyclic nature of events. That is important for the park and crop habitat but in different ways. * Pollination by insects, beetles, etc. is intertwined in complex ecosystem relationships. E.g. Some insects, birds, beetles need twilight. * Vapor Pressure Deficit deviates with atmospheric pressure gradients * carboxylase limitations in competition with oxygen concentration * Some microorganisms might develop over time some enzymatic degrading capacity for your fabrics ? * the list is long on the subject of these tangent remarks, I'm sure there are more urgent subjects in the field of material science, logistics and construction. All very fascinating stuff. The more we learn and discover by conceptualizing these lunar habitats, the better for humanity.

[@thomasherzig174]

thanks for your profound comment. Indeed, most your addressed issues will need to be tested and approved on several prototypes. So I hope to get the required support now, to build a few small scale prototypes followed by a real scale prototype on Earth, to test the mechanical stress on the membrane and its exposure to microorganisms and humidity over a long time, and simulate an ecological cycle in various settings. After approval of the functional terrestrial prototypes, we can start installing prototypes in space and on the moon. We still are at the beginning of a very long path.

[@tommyottoking]

what if we could make something large enough to meet all lf those qualifications and put it in our orbit? or does that have a billion more problems?

[@MarsChroniken]

This is awesome.

[@larrye.goinesjr.1535]

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[@DavidDunand-qr4mh]

Excellent concept and great video. As a metallurgist, I suggest you consider high-strength steel (essentially piano wire with UTS of 2-3 GPa) for the tensile members, which is much more durable than CFRP, much better in vacuum and when exposed to the sun for years (for the outside truss), and also much tougher (will resist accidental bumps from the crew). Also, steel can eventually be made from moon regolith, unlike carbon fibers and epoxy, and is easier to make into thin struts. Also, the inner transparent membrane is exposed to the very cold vacuum. How do you prevent water condensation from the greenhouse onto these "windows" ? Maybe use a UV absorber which will self-heat the membrane ?

[@thomasherzig174]

thanks for your input. when the truss parts are made of material mined on the moon, they weight does not matter. When the structural parts need to be sourced from Earth we would need to compare and evaluate UTS vs Carbonfiber regarding weight vs Strength, stiffness, bending resistance. While sunlight is entering the greenhouse and the artificial crater within, the temperature gap and heat transfer to the vacuum outside is not much. I am more concerned that the crater will be a kind of heat trap. during dark periods the greenhouse window is covered. generally we want the vapor to condensate on the walls and on the cooling radiators inside the greenhouse , so the water transpired by plants can flow down into the soil again and the air humidity can be kept on a decent level.

[@aeroyogawithaiko7382]

that really makes sense!

[@craigcorson3036]

I can see where a few tweaks would be needed, but it's a pretty good basic design.

[@mmmitchell6887]

Excellent content! I’m thrilled. Ich mag der Deutsche Sprache und Essen sehr gerne! Wien ist Wunderbar, aber Munchen ist meine ❤️. 😊👌🏽

[@louiswu9907]

If you would place the microphone very close to the presenter, you would get rid of the reverb.

[@MonsterSound]

awesome

[@larrye.goinesjr.1535]

There Aren't Enough Queen Bees To Go Around, You'll Need A Q-Tip To Transfer Pollen?!?

[@thomasherzig174]

I ´d more opt for bumble bees and butterflies, because they live in smaller groups that find enough nectar and pollen in a 245m2 greenhouse. The caterpillars also could be a good and easy source of animal protein

[@rgloria40]

I think after 5 to 10 years the moon farms needs to consider recycling every thing from sewage (ie...separating poo from pee, to atmospheric water vapor recycling and etc...)...The vehicle spider vehicle has been built over 16 years ago to: kzbin.info/www/bejne/Z3WVqp9sd5h-r8k PS Don't forget about recycling the human body after death like in DUNE for water and other minerals.

[@lucasmartindublanc2636]

nice

[@danielsanches6748]

💡A ideia é formidável, a terraformação da Lua e bem sensato tendo em vista que o próximo passo pode ser Marte.

[@GadreelAdvocat]

Inflatable won’t last. There’s an easier way to build than that. That also offers more of a permanent structure.

[@thomasherzig174]

please, feel free to explain how that easier way would work!

[@GadreelAdvocat]

@@thomasherzig174 I don't always give information away for free. It relies on a certain type of shape that works well for a multitude of applications. I'm waiting for a Moon or Mars habitat design contest that's worth my while.

[@thomasherzig174]

@@GadreelAdvocat then, I wish you good luck with the contest !

[@GadreelAdvocat]

@@thomasherzig174 Thanks, and all the best to you and those around you.

[@THX..1138]

🤔There's no real point in using a mirror system like this. If you wanna pipe sunlight down to an underground greenhouse the best method is to use fiber optic solar collectors. They are an already well developed commercial product that would need little adaptation for use on the moon and would eliminate the complexly in building a space mirror and having to build the green house around said mirror. Also not only would fiber optic solar collectors not leave a path for cosmic radiation to enter the greenhouse they filter out UV and IR light. Which is highly desirable because neither is used by photosynthesis. UV is destructive and too much IR would have to be removed by a cooling system.

[@thomasherzig174]

as we mentioned in the video , the Kapton foil of the mirror membrane is coated with silver ( instead of aluminium) which reflects much less of the UV-radiation. All the optical collectors, the sealed glass fibre, the spots that emit the light again and the structures that need to hold these divides add more to the payload than a thin mirror membrane. Only to hold the optic solar collectors in the right height and right position you need a similar rotating truss frame structure , but the weight of the collectors is higher than for the thin membrane, so the structure needs to be heavier as well. Then you have the weight of all the cables, and again the weight of the outlets while you do not need any components for the reflected light to flood the greenhouse. Additionally glass fibre cables have high optical transmission losses when they are long.

[@doozerchuck8625]

Silly

[@alexgram4345]

You should work on your presentations. Better graphics, no lame cartoon and star trek jokes.

[@thomasherzig174]

I purposely chose that style.

[@alexgram4345]

Hire a guy like me. Get some respect/views and interest in the project.

[@thomasherzig174]

@@alexgram4345 do you have some of your work to show on a website ?

[@smay81]

@Alex Gram: After reading your comment I checked your channel and I was lmao from your preschool degree blender animation. Your understanding of the subject of a presentation is obviously very limited.

[@alexgram4345]

@@smay81 An attack deserves a counter attack! But there is nothing on my page but old irrelevant stuff - nevertheless i rest my case.

[@jlmwatchman]

They republished the video, it might be a new one, and I heard more about how vital the sun is to growing plant life. All I have to say is, “Haven’t you heard of a Sun Lamp?” Yet the female voice did say that the true sunlight with the just-right radiation level, plants grow better? What I got out of the video is that the habitat is trying too hard to use In-Situ Resources that add risks to life on the Moon, but I think they explain more about radiation protection. You know humans need to stay safe, so we need to live underground on any astral body other than Earth. That being said, anybody who is going to be living in orbit will need Jean Therapy which would have made them more resilient to radiation exposure? They explains that there is less Gravity on the Moon, that we all know? They do state without explanation that there will be a Truss Ring as a part of the habitat. As I have said every Moon Habitat will need a gravity cylinder for Earthlings to sleep in that could be a hypergravity vehicle riding on a track in the Truss Ring? ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citations/20160001103/downloads/20160001103.pdf The HGVC that I would like to see on the Moon?

[@thomasherzig174]

hello John, we don´t say that plants grow better under natural sunlight than under LED light. We say that natural sunlight is more energy efficient and easier. We save a lot of payload that otherwise is required for photovoltaic panels, shelves and LED lamps. Furthermore this naturally illuminated greenhouse is nice living space for humans and animals, unlike aeroponic shelves . I am curious to see more about you mentioned artificial gravity vehicle. But it would need to be inside a lava cave large enough or covered with a tunnel structure to be protected from cosmic radiation. We did not want to make such an effort. since humans can stay in zero gravity on the ISS up to a year. And here we have not zero gravity, but still 16% terrestrial gravity. The low gravity even has interesting benefits , as you could fly like a bird with attached wings inside a pressurized room. But we could add a small gravity centrifuge to the habitat so crew members can experience terrestrial gravity vor 30-60 minutes per day .

[@r0cketplumber]

@@thomasherzig174 The torus appears to have a minor radius of 3 m, and a major radius of about 10. This puts the outermost radius at about 13 meters- so if you have an inclined running/cycling track, at a 5 m/s (11.2 mph) the person would experience about 1.9 m/s acceleration radially, and about 2.5 m/s2 at the resulting angle of 49 degrees from vertical, about 16 seconds per lap. Thus exercise could consist of a pleasant jog or bike ride in the garden, and to reach one full gee on a bicycle would need about 11 m/s (25 mph), reasonable for a person in good health. No centrifuge needed! The exercise path need not interfere with the plants, it would be well up the outer slope, and the overall effect would be reminiscent of the classic scene from 2001. The openings to the tunnels could have gratings for the track, anyone entering finding a closed grating would need to check with the runner(s) before opening it. For background, www.wired.com/story/a-comprehensive-guide-to-the-physics-of-running-on-the-moon/