NASA Gives Rp. 500 Million for Toilet Designers to Use on the Moon!
Sunday, June 28, 2020
UPDATimes - The United States Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) offers a prize of 35,000 US dollars, for anyone who can design a toilet for use on the Moon.
NASA has set a goal of approval to send astronauts back to the Moon in 2024. Of course, the lunar cruisers will need toilets during their missions.
NASA could have adapted a toilet design similar to the landing of its Artemis Moon. This toilet needs to work well in the micro-space or zero-g gravity.
On the Moon, which must be done about one-sixth of what we feel on Earth, according to the design guidelines posted by NASA and HeroX, making it easier for anyone to make challenges in solving this problem.
This mission was issued dispatching the first female astronaut who will land on the Moon. Using the toilet must be comfortable to use, both for men and women.
NASA is currently busy making travel plans to the Moon run smoothly. Astronauts can survive while on the Moon for several days to carry out its mission.
It is known that currently NASA is waiting for the concept of a toilet that will be presented on the Moon. Parties are held until contests are held for people to be invited to use toilets that can be used on the Moon.
Indeed, toilets are one thing that is needed for astronauts when going to the Moon. Unlike astronauts who go to ISS because there is already its own toilet, there is currently no space station at all on the Moon.
In addition, on the moon separated from Earth in other places NASA difficulty in the toilet which is suitable for use by astronauts when they want to defecate or small.
"This prize will be given to toilet designers who can cancel 'throwing out' without asking crew members to prepare approved near the toilet," NASA wrote.
The design of the toilet must also save water and help maintain a clean environment in landers that is free of odors and other contaminants.
Bonuses will be given to designs that can catch vomiting without requiring crew members to put their heads on the toilet edges - write NASA in the toilet design competition guidelines.
As for other criteria, toilets must also be able to support two astronauts for 14 days and allow for the transfer of collected waste to storage or for disposal outside the vehicle.
In addition, the toilet must also be easy to clean, and only needs less than 70 watts of power. Adjustments to space conditions are also needed so that the weight of the toilet must be less than 15 kg of weight on Earth, and the volume is less than 0.12 cubic meters.
NASA will give prizes for the first, second and third winners, namely 20 thousand US dollars, 10 thousand US dollars and 5 thousand US dollars. While the deadline for design submissions is August 17, 2020, and the winner will be announced in October.
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