Category Archives: Education

Education, Simulators, Space Systems

10 day simulation of mission in inflatable planetary habitat underway at Univ. North Dakota

The 10 day Lunar/Mars mission simulation by the North Dakota UND Human Spaceflight Laboratory  has been underway since Sunday. (See earlier post.)

Three graduate students are living

 inside an Inflatable Planetary Module, using a Pressurized Rover and two NDX-2AT space suits. All these elements were developed at the UND Space Suit Laboratory www.human.space.edu under a 3-year NASA grant.

You can follow their activities on the NDX Space Suit Projects. Here are their reports so far:

And a local newspaper story: UND starts a ten day lunar habitat experiment – WDAY | Fargo, ND (includes video news report):

Education, Living in Space, Simulators

Univ. North Dakota students to simulate deep space mission by living 10 days in inflatable habitat

The University of North Dakota UND Human Spaceflight Laboratory, which recently participated in the World Space Walk event with two other space suit teams, will start a ten day simulation of a planetary mission this Sunday: NDX Planetary Exploration System First Test Starts this Weekend! – NDX Space Suit Projects

Final preparations are taking place at the UND Department of Space Studies for the initial 10 days testing of the Lunar/Mars Inflatable Planetary Habitat. Three crewmembers , all UND Aerospace Graduate Students, will take part on this first mission. The objectives are to test the habitat, pressurized rover, and NDX-2AT space suits for habitation, and to test if all systems are operational.
Further details will be published on [NDX Space Suit Projects blog …], Saturday [Oct 26, 2013].

More details about the project:

Drawing of the habitat in which the 3 “crew members” will reside for 10 days.

Education, Space Science, SpaceCasts

Virtual SpaceTV 3D – October 2013

Here is the October 2013 episode of The Virtual SpaceTV 3D show with Amanda Bush. The programs are created by BINARY SPACE (www.binary-space.com) with story content from HobbySpace.com.

Amanda reports on the following topics
00:56 – 02:51 Cygnus Cargo Module visits ISS
02:52 – 05:05 New Falcon 9 Rocket launches
05:06 – 06:32 The Grasshopper’s highest hop yet
06:33 – 08:48 India & US to send Probes to Mars

Other Virtual SpaceTV 3D shows are available on the  HobbySpace Youtube Channel.

These videos are intended as educational programs and as demonstrations of an experimental technique for generating animated presentations. The show was generated autonomously by software according to a text script. The project is described in the Virtual Producer whitepaper (Release 1.1, Oct.2013, pdf). For further information contact info@binary-space.com.