The NASA Habitat Demonstration Unit (HDU) vertical cylinder habitat was established as a exploration habitat testbed platform for integration and testing of a variety of technologies and subsystems that will be required in a human-occupied planetary surface outpost or Deep Space Habitat (DSH). The HDU functioned as a medium-fidelity habitat prototype from 2010-2012 and allowed teams from all over NASA to collaborate on field analog missions, mission operations tests, and system integration tests to help shake out equipment and provide feedback for technology development cycles and crew training. This paper documents the final 2012 configuration of the HDU, and discusses some of the testing that took place. Though much of the higher-fidelity functionality has 'graduated' into other NASA programs, as of this writing the HDU, renamed Human Exploration Research Analog (HERA), will continue to be available as a volumetric and operational mockup for NASA Human Research Program (HRP) research from 2013 onward.


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    Title :

    NASA Habitat Demonstration Unit (HDU) Deep Space Habitat Analog


    Contributors:

    Conference:

    AIAA SPACE 2013 Conference & Exposition ; 2013 ; San Diego, CA, United States


    Publication date :

    2013-09-10


    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English





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