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Student Involvement is the very core of
the University of Luna Project. The
students we engage and inspire will be the
leaders of the Space Movement in decades
to come.
The following research tools are
aimed at engaging students:
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Lunarpedia.org
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Continuing
to build up the
Moon-focused open source
online
encyclopedia
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Data
Mining Projects
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Examining
data from past missions
for new knowledge,
sometimes with the aid
of improved software
that has the effect of
improving the
resolution
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Examples:
using altimetry data
to identify contiguous
areas of easy, and
progressively more
difficult traverse with
the goal of identifying
logical transportation
corridors on the lunar
globe
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Overlaying
data from different
instruments to find
clues not present in the
data of either
alone
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Masters
& Doctoral
Theses
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On
research issues not
previously adequately
addressed
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Examples:
robot team mapping
of subsurface lavatubes;
dust-repellent materials
for spacesuits,
boots
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Engineering
Competitions
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Field
testing new mechanisms
and equipment for
performance
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Examples:
new mobile
suspension systems, new
motors and engines that
run on fuels that can be
locally produced;
finding the most
efficient and trouble
free teleoperable
shielding emplacement
systems
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Design
Competitions
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Designing
modular architecture
languages, modular
biospherics systems.
There are an endless
number of things needing
design
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Example:
turtleback spacesuits
(the back shell
secures to a conferral
airlock as the wearer
backs up, the shell
opens into the
pressurized interior,
and the wearer reaches
up inside and above the
airlock to grab a rail
and pull him/herself
inside the habitat. The
lock closes and the
empty suit is removed
automatically to an
external
closet.)
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Lunar
Analog Research Station
Activities
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At
the Mars Desert Research
Station, for example, a
high percentage of crew
members volunteering for
2-week tours, are
students
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Students
can also participate in
Analog Station programs
as remote capcoms, and
teleoperators of
equipment, freeing crew
members on location for
duties that cannot be
handled by
telepresence.
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The
ULP Friends
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It is
expected that this
auxiliary
organization
will be powered by
campus-based
chapters
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On
your shoulders, others will
stand
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accomplishments
by students and student
teams will define the
challenges for students
and student teams to
follow.
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A ULP
newsletter dedicated to
publishing reports of
student and student team
accomplishments
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And
someday, when a real
University of Luna opens
its doors to Lunar
pioneers, some graduates
of ULP programs may be
among the first faculty
members, perhaps most
teaching by
telepresence, but some
on location, on the
Moon!
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Another goal of the University Project is
creation of research-focused
curricula
for teaching
space topics in a way that lets
students contribute new discoveries and
concepts.
Of course, to make all this work, we
must also recruit faculty members
at as many
institutions as possible, willing to
collaborate.
As you can see from the
Departments
page, quite a few disciplines will be
involved.
No matter what
your major and field, the chances are
that you can play a role in the
University of Luna Project.
To insure that all students who want
to participate, can do so,
We will try to
recruit faculty persons in all fields
willing to instruct or guide by email
and/or Internet
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