Working with JPL, eight University of Michigan students designed, built and tested the Material Handling Chain (MHC) for NASA's Habitat Demonstration Unit (HDU). The HDU is full scale prototype of a habitat that allows mission planners to run through potential “day in the life” scenarios of a space outpost. These tests provide insights into the utilization of the different systems so that the exploration architecture and the operation concepts can be refined.
The Habitat Demonstration Unit Pressurized Excursion Module (HDU 1-PEM) a one story, 3-port habitat design concept, as seen during field testing in 2010.
The Material Handling Chain (MHC) being integrated with the HDU (above) as part of the 2011 Desert Research and Technology Study (RATS).In 2011, the HDU is being reconfigured as the Deep Space Habitat element of NASA's exploration architecture to evaluate a scenario of a near-Earth asteroid (NEA) exploration mission. This includes updating and modifying systems in the 2010 configuration but also involves adding new systems and new modules. One of these new systems is the Michigan made Material Handling Chain that will allow astronauts to bring bulky objects into the habitat for service and storage. After a year of hard work in Darren McKague's AOSS 582/583, the students have completed the MHC and shipped it to the Black Point Lava Flow, Arizona where it is being integrated with the HDU.
Read more on the HDU project here.
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