Project Details: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1gHNKpNpPHYfd3WEwtKAkyClxfZYQsjt5/view
NASA is calling on the global community for their novel design concepts for compact toilets that can operate in both microgravity and lunar gravity. These designs may be adapted for use in the Artemis lunar landers that take us back to the Moon. Although space toilets already exist and are in use (at the International Space Station, for example), they are designed for microgravity only. NASA is looking for a next-generation device that is smaller, more efficient, and capable of working in both microgravity and lunar gravity. Getting back to the Moon by 2024 is an ambitious goal, and NASA is already working on approaches to miniaturize and streamline the existing toilets. But they are also inviting ideas from the global community, knowing that they will approach the problem with a mindset different from traditional aerospace engineering. This challenge hopes to attract radically new and different approaches to the problem of human waste capture and containment.
We ensure that our loo design is practical, feasible, and able to operate under the given circumstances. We proposed our ideas in the hope that it could become a part of the Artemis project. We would like to see the fruit of our work leave the skyline of the Earth, ascending through the exosphere. We, the Ascertains, believe that we may only be able to march to the Moon this time, but Mars is next. And in a blink of an eye, we will conquer the solar system as multi-planetary beings.
Concept and design by Rachapoom Phanchotong, Sira Pornsiriprasert, and Krittapong Leewongwat
NASA is calling on the global community for their novel design concepts for compact toilets that can operate in both microgravity and lunar gravity. These designs may be adapted for use in the Artemis lunar landers that take us back to the Moon. Although space toilets already exist and are in use (at the International Space Station, for example), they are designed for microgravity only. NASA is looking for a next-generation device that is smaller, more efficient, and capable of working in both microgravity and lunar gravity. Getting back to the Moon by 2024 is an ambitious goal, and NASA is already working on approaches to miniaturize and streamline the existing toilets. But they are also inviting ideas from the global community, knowing that they will approach the problem with a mindset different from traditional aerospace engineering. This challenge hopes to attract radically new and different approaches to the problem of human waste capture and containment.
We ensure that our loo design is practical, feasible, and able to operate under the given circumstances. We proposed our ideas in the hope that it could become a part of the Artemis project. We would like to see the fruit of our work leave the skyline of the Earth, ascending through the exosphere. We, the Ascertains, believe that we may only be able to march to the Moon this time, but Mars is next. And in a blink of an eye, we will conquer the solar system as multi-planetary beings.
Concept and design by Rachapoom Phanchotong, Sira Pornsiriprasert, and Krittapong Leewongwat
