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Building Habitats on the Moon

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Abstract

These lists organize structures, their infrastructure, and their applications. They show how the interrelated systems are integrated and considered in the design of habitats and other structures. The lists were developed and refined over a series of technical meetings at space conferences during the 1990s.

“Structures to protect us,

and where we can thrive.”

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Notes

  1. 1.

    Just as I am a member of the AIAA Space Architecture Technical Committee, I am equally a member of the AIAA Life Sciences and Systems Technical Committee.

  2. 2.

    A concept of operations, abbreviated CONOPS, CONOPs, or ConOps, is a document describing the characteristics of a proposed system from the viewpoint of an individual who will use that system. It is used to communicate the quantitative and qualitative system characteristics to all stakeholders.

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Benaroya, H. (2018). Structures. In: Building Habitats on the Moon. Springer Praxis Books(). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-68244-0_4

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