ASTROVASTRA
People's Choice Nominee
ASTROVASTRA received a People's Choice Nomination.
Out-of-this-world fashion with function: clothing or accessories for earth or space wear!
Every space traveler – even the robotic ones – should feel? their very best during the journey, infused with the very best data and technology available. Earthlings can follow suit. Design a space data-tech-fashion wearable in the form of clothing or accessories that will collect or distribute data and technology in the following categories:
Design for Interconnectivity (staying more connected to team, community, and tools)
- enhance the work/life experience of humans and/or capabilities of robots
Design for Health (biometrics, physical and emotional health, and/or environmental alerts)
- maintain or improve the health and well-being of the human
- provide early warning for unhealthy environmental factors (air quality, radiation, outgassing, temperature)
Design for Entertainment (sights, sounds, music, activity)
- enhance the human experience whether during work or play
When you ask a child what he wants to become when he grows up ,the chances that he wants to go to the moon are pretty high.
but being an astronaut is no easy task it is a job with high risk as it has been found out that most astronauts after extended periods of stay in space, suffered from one form or the other of health problems.
so we have concluded that there are 10 main problems that are faced by astronauts when they are living in space.
1. When in space it is difficult to take bath and thus it is not given much of a priority and also cloths are repeated again and again which may lead to neglect of hygine
2. A 10-year sleep study showed that astronauts don’t get enough sleep for weeks before and during their space missions. Three out of four also use sleep medications, which may be dangerous when operating the spacecraft or other equipment.
3.Studies have shown that even one shuttle mission could cause a substantial temporary hearing loss and a smaller permanent hearing loss, usually at the higher frequencies involved in hearing speech.
4.Although we don’t know what effects dust from other planets or asteroids will have on our astronauts, we do know that moon dust caused some problems on their lunar missions. if the fine particulates of moon dust are inhaled. Extremely sharp-edged moon dust can harm the heart and lungs, with effects ranging from inflammation to a heightened risk of cancer. It’s somewhat like inhaling asbestos.
5.On Earth, our immune systems change if we don’t get enough sleep or nutrition or if we’re under too much stress. The immune systems of astronauts on lengthy missions seem to change while in space, turning a simple cold or the flu into a potentially serious health risk.
6.When simulating deep space conditions, scientists discovered that exposure to high-energy particles, even in low doses, caused rats to react more slowly and become distracted.
7.Outside the protective shield of the Earth's atmosphere, astronauts have to contend with high radiation levels. Mostly, these have minor and long-term effects: a slight increase in the risk of cancer in later life, for example. But during occasional solar flares, the sleet of radiation from the Sun can be immediately life-threatening.
8.In a vacuum, there is no medium for removing heat from the body by conduction or convection. Loss of heat is by radiation from the 310 K temperature of a person to the 3 K of outer space. This is a slow process, especially in a clothed person, so there is no danger of immediately freezing. Rapid evaporative cooling of skin moisture in a vacuum may create frost, particularly in the mouth, but this is not a significant hazard.
9.The most common problem experienced by humans in the initial hours of weightlessness is known as space adaptation syndrome or SAS, commonly referred to as space sickness. It is related to motion sickness, and arises as the vestibular system adapts to weightlessness. Symptoms of SAS include nausea and vomiting, vertigo, headaches, lethargy, and overall malaise.
10. The second effect of weightlessness takes place in human fluids. The body is made up of 60% water, much of it intra-vascular and inter-cellular. Within a few moments of entering a microgravity environment, fluid is immediately re-distributed to the upper body resulting in bulging neck veins, puffy face and sinus and nasal congestion which can last throughout the duration of the trip and is very much like the symptoms of the common cold.A 2014 study on 12 astronauts found that the heart becomes 9.4 percent more spherical after long exposure to microgravity, or weightlessness, in space. This could cause heart problems, especially on a deep space flight to Mars.
to these 10 problems keeping our challenge in mind we have designed 6 solutions that when refined can solve the above mentioned problems.
of them the most important ones are:_
a) solution4,5,8,9
b) solution 7,2,1
c) solution 3
solutions 3,4,5,8,9, deal with the creation of new fabric with various compositions and weaves, and incorporation adsorption to increase the durability and usefulness of a dress.
solution 7,2,1 deal with accessories that might make the whole process of living in space a lot simpler.
solution 3 gives the details about how to remove the moon dust which is very harmful to human lungs using strategically placed valves throughout the suits which use the internal fan present in the space suit to remove the dust particles by providing air pressure from inside.
the presentation can be accessed here :
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B525ooDQJ85eVkR1Q...
