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S. Kerber, S. Häuplik-Meusburger, B. Foing:
"HAVEN Lunar Port and Base - Design of a Lunar Arrival Port with a Long-Term Habitat for Versatile Crew Occupations";
Talk: International Conference of Environmental Systems, SAE, Online (invited); 2021-07-12 - 2021-07-15; in: "50th International Conference on Environmental Systems", Texas Tech University Library System, ICES-2021-41 (2021), Paper ID ICES-2021-41, 13 pages.

https://hdl.handle.net/2346/87059
With the 50th anniversary of the Moon landing in July 2019, the Moon is experiencing a new boom. Space agencies, international organisation, and even the private sector are competing in what might be described as a new race to the Moon. This time, however, the goal is not only to set foot on Earth�s nearest neighbour, but to establish a base for long-term research with increased habitability levels. The HAVEN Lunar Port and Base is an integral design for an arrival port at the Moon�s South Pole, based on the sustainable reuse of discarded lander components. The main elements of the compound are a launch and landing area for incoming and leaving crews, a hangar to place landers and lander components into interim storage, and a long-term habitat. The habitat provides room for a permanent crew of four, which runs the arrival port and conducts research in the area of lunar habitability. In addition, HAVEN will house short-term crews of another four astronauts for an acclimatisation and instruction period of up to seven days, before their distribution to their respective research outposts. The HAVEN design pays special attention to this versatile and fast-changing crew; the architecture aims to cater to the different privacy needs of the two separate sub-crews, while simultaneously encouraging an exchange of experience and expertise, as well as the formation of a larger community, in shared areas. The habitat consists of a rigid centre component and a multilayer inflatable and caters to all habitation needs from dedicated work and communication spaces over private crew quarters and leisure time areas, to technical support systems and a greenhouse. Empty propulsion tanks of discarded lander descent stages are used in the construction of the habitat�s radiation shielding, in order to achieve both, a more sustainable and more economic construction process.

https://publik.tuwien.ac.at/files/publik_304050.pdf