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Habitation Systems Research

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Habitation is “the act of living in a place” or “a place where someone lives” (Webster Dictionary). While the origin of the word dates back to the 14th century, its use for Space habitation is fairly new. In fact, “early spacecraft had to be designed to be operated and not lived in” (Compton and Benson 1983, p. 130). The effects of impaired habitability can be inconvenient or even life threatening. The integration of human factors into habitation system “will make mission success more likely” (Larson, p. 134).

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Notes

  1. 1.

    UM3D Lab, Digital Media Commons, University of Michigan, Space Architect.

  2. 2.

    Advanced Concepts Office at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center, Space Architect.

  3. 3.

    See Glossary in the Appendix for further information.

  4. 4.

    See ‘Social interaction’ in http://www.britannica.com/topic/social-interaction.

  5. 5.

    Further Resource: Anthropometric Source Book Volume II: A Handbook of Antrhopotmetric Data, NASA, 1978: https://archive.org/details/nasa_techdoc_19790005540.

  6. 6.

    Source for Research: Volume I—Man Systems Integration Standards (MSIS) online: http://msis.jsc.nasa.gov/downloads.htm.

  7. 7.

    http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/station/crew/exp6/spacechronicles4.html.

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    http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/shuttle/support/people/galdrich.html.

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    Further Research: Lighting design requirements for exterior lighting, emergency lighting and controls can be found in the NASA-STD-3001, Volume 2, Chapter 8.7 Lighting.

  10. 10.

    Further Research: Book: Architecture for Astronauts by S. Häuplik-Meusburger: Comparison of the Architectural Concept (88–89) and Interior Layout (90–91) of space habitats.

  11. 11.

    Research: Paper by Marc M., Testing the Celentano Curve: An Empirical Survey of Predictions for Human Spacecraft Pressurized Volume. 08ICES-0046.

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    Further Reading; ‘Astronauts orbiting on their stomachs’ by Häuplik-Meusburger (pp 114–117) in ‘Space Architecture: The New Frontier for Design Research, Wiley 2011.

  13. 13.

    Brent Sherwood’s contribution to the “International Space University’s 1993 Space Architecture Curriculum Notes” is used to structure this section. Griffin (1993)

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    “Akin’s Laws,” by David L. Akin, Associate Professor in the Department of Aerospace Engineering, University of Maryland, Director of the Space Systems Laboratory.

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    Triage is the process of dividing wounded people into three categories: those who will die no matter what the doctor does, those who will live even if the doctor does nothing, and those who will only live if the doctor treats them. The doctor only treats the third category, that is, the cases where his effort will make the most difference. Design integration requires the same philosophy.

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