NASA Design Projects at UC Berkeley for NASA's HEDS-UP Program

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Jan 1998

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HEDS-UP Mars Exploration Forum, p. 137

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Crew Size, Environmental Control, Life Support Systems, Space Suits, Manned Mars Missions, Microgravity, Bioastronautics, Mars (Planet), Bioengineering, Spacecraft Environments, University Program, Mars Environment, World Wide Web, Nasa Programs, Intravehicular Activity, Human Factors Engineering

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Missions to Mars have been a topic for study since the advent of the space age. But funding has been largely reserved for the unmanned probes such as Viking, Pathfinder and Global Surveyer. Financial and political constraints have relegated human missions, on the other hand, to backroom efforts such as the Space Exploration Initiative (SEI) of 1989-1990. With the new found enthusiasm from Pathfinder and the meteorite ALH84001, however, there is renewed interest in human exploration of Mars. This is manifest in the new Human Exploration and Development of Space (HEDS) program that NASA has recently initiated. This program, through its University Projects (HEDS-UP) office has taken the unusual step of soliciting creative solutions from universities. For its part in the HEDS-UP program, the University of California at Berkeley was asked to study the issues of Habitat design, Space Suits for Mars, Environmental Control and Life Support Systems, Countermeasures to Hypogravity and Crew Size/Mix. These topics were investigated as design projects in "Mars by 2012", an on-going class for undergraduates and graduate students. The methodology of study was deemed to be as important as the design projects themselves and for that we were asked to create an Interactive Design Environment. The Interactive Design Environment (IDE) is an electronic "office" that allows scientists and engineers, as well as other interested parties, to interact with and critique engineering designs as they progress. It usually takes the form of a website that creates a "virtual office" environment. That environment is a place where NASA and others can interact with and critique the university designs for potential inclusion in the Mars Design Reference Mission.

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