CEEES - Examining Sustainability Avenues for Human & Robotic Space Exploration
The goal of this project is to identify different avenues that add value to human and robotic space exploration such that an enduring, long term endeavor is established. The students will identify individual avenues and research what value(s) each of these bring to the project and beyond. One of the biggest issues is defining “sustainability”, which will be the first task that many will think is easy – it isn’t! The second is creating value out of sustainability approaches, as creating value in any endeavor is the fundamental underpinning of sustainability.
The United States is on course to go back to the Moon to stay, which requires a sustainable approach to developing architectures to attain this goal. Students will be challenged on some fudamental assumptions that they may have and will be encouraged to think outside the box or even throw the box away!