Many conceptual studies for long duration missions beyond Earth orbit have assumed unique habitat designs for each destination and for transit habitation. This may not be the most effective approach. A variable gravity habitat, one designed for use in microgravity, lunar, Martian, and terrestrial environments may provide savings that offset the loss of environment-specific optimization. However, a brief analysis of selected flown spacecraft and Constellation-era conceptual habitat designs suggests that one cannot simply lift a habitat from one environment and place it in another that it was not designed for without incurring significant human performance compromises. By comparison, a conceptual habitat based on the Skylab II framework but designed specifically to accommodate variable gravity environments can be shown to yield significant advantages while incurring only minimal human performance compromises.


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    Title :

    Commonality between Reduced Gravity and Microgravity Habitats for Long Duration Missions


    Contributors:

    Conference:

    National Society of Black Engineers Aerospace Systems Conference ; 2014 ; Los Angeles, CA, United States


    Publication date :

    2014-01-22


    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English




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