Wall Street Journalさんのインスタグラム写真 - (Wall Street JournalInstagram)「With NASA planning to return people to the moon in 2024, and aiming to establish “a sustained long-term presence on the lunar surface” over the following decade, the agency is spending $15 million on a five-year project to figure out how to create a lunar habitat that will keep astronauts alive.⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ @nasa wants to build up infrastructure such as communications, power generation and waste disposal on the moon. Eventually, the so-called Artemis Base Camp could accommodate a crew of four astronauts with the goal of spending a month or two at a time on the surface.⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ The NASA-funded Resilient Extra-Terrestrial Habitats Institute—led by Purdue University, in collaboration with Harvard University, the University of Connecticut and the University of Texas at San Antonio—is working on tests that will examine what could happen under a range of disaster scenarios on the moon. These could be anything from a micrometeorite punching a hole through a habitat to an hourslong moonquake jiggling the pipes of the environmental control and life support system. Last month, students and faculty at Purdue began real-world tests on a 4-foot-high, 8-foot-wide geodesic dome and other equipment in a lab on campus, pictured here. ⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ Read more at the link in our bio. ⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ 📷: @evanpjenkins for @wsjphotos」12月16日 0時15分