Lunar Contour Crafting - A Novel Technique for ISRU-Based Habitat Development
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1. Habitat Structures at MSFC is one element of the In-Situ Fabrication and Repair (ISFR) Program: ISFR develops technologies for fabrication, repair and recycling of tools, parts, and habitats/structures using in-situ resources. ISRU - based habitat structures are considered Class III. 2. Habitat Structure Purpose: Develop Lunar and/or Martian habitat structures for manned missions that maximize the use of in-situ resources to address the following agency topics: bioastronautics critical path roadmap; strategic technical challenges defined in H&RT formulation plan: margins and redundancy; modularity, robotic network, space resource utilization; autonomy, affordable logistics pre-positioning.
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Contour Crafting technology was an early attempt by NASA, the US Army Corps, and the University of Southern California to build large-scale domes and walls for the Lunar surface.
“Contour Crafting (CC) technology was an early attempt by NASA, the US Army Corps, and the University of Southern California to build large-scale domes and walls for the Lunar surface [247,248].”
From A comprehensive review of lunar-based manufacturing and construction (2024) · cites this paper as [248]
The Introduction identifies Contour Crafting as a technology NASA was evaluating for lunar habitats, and the Test Status section describes USC-built hardware operated at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center. The paper reports full-scale concrete wall experiments and discusses domes as a possible construction form, but it does not identify the US Army Corps as a participant or say that large-scale domes and walls were built for the lunar surface. (LLM, conf=0.86)
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- Authors
- Khoshnevis, B., Bodiford, M., Burks, K., Ethridge, E., Tucker, D., Kim, W., Toutanji, H., & Fiske, M.
- Affiliations
- University of Southern California (US)
- Marshall Space Flight Center (US)
- NASA Marshall
- Jet Propulsion Laboratory (US)
- University of Alabama in Huntsville (US)
- Venue
- 43rd AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting and Exhibit
- Published
- 2005-01-10
- OpenAlex
- W2017874637
- Cited by
- 138
- References
- 26
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- FWCI
- 13.69
- Type
- conference paper
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- hdl.handle.net
- Locations
- AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting and Exhibit (publishedVersion)
- NASA STI Repository (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- California Institute of Technology
- Jet Propulsion Laboratory
- Marshall Space Flight Center
- Office of Naval Research
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Engineering › Building and Construction › Innovations in Concrete and Construction Materials
- Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Astronomy and Astrophysics › Planetary Science and Exploration
- Physical Sciences › Engineering › Automotive Engineering › Additive Manufacturing and 3D Printing Technologies
- Keywords
- in-situ resource utilization, contour crafting, 3D printing, Mars habitats, robot construction, space resource utilization, bioastronautics
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