Building the vacuum dome for the lunar environment

A concrete dome to house the test lunar environment is under construction in northern NSW. Here’s a summary edit of progress: This episode features footage of the construction of the first concrete dome that will be used as a test lunar environment – pumped down to a vacuum and filled with basaltic sand. This threeContinue reading “Building the vacuum dome for the lunar environment”

Building a lunar simulator on Earth: the vacuum dome

In this episode, Rod and his students conduct an analysis of the requirements of a dome to house a vacuum equivalent to that on the moon. EM2 is the Earth to Moon to Mars project, to develop and test technology for humankind’s colonisation of other world. NASA has identified a moon base as the springboardContinue reading “Building a lunar simulator on Earth: the vacuum dome”