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NASA Habitat Demonstration Unit (HDU) Deep Space Habitat AnalogThe NASA Habitat Demonstration Unit (HDU) vertical cylinder habitat was established as a exploration habitat testbed platform for integration and testing of a variety of technologies and subsystems that will be required in a human-occupied planetary surface outpost or Deep Space Habitat (DSH). The HDU functioned as a medium-fidelity habitat prototype from 2010-2012 and allowed teams from all over NASA to collaborate on field analog missions, mission operations tests, and system integration tests to help shake out equipment and provide feedback for technology development cycles and crew training. This paper documents the final 2012 configuration of the HDU, and discusses some of the testing that took place. Though much of the higher-fidelity functionality has 'graduated' into other NASA programs, as of this writing the HDU, renamed Human Exploration Research Analog (HERA), will continue to be available as a volumetric and operational mockup for NASA Human Research Program (HRP) research from 2013 onward.

Document ID
20150007877
Acquisition Source
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Document Type
Conference Paper
External Source(s)
Authors
Howe, A. Scott
(Jet Propulsion Lab., California Inst. of Tech. Pasadena, CA, United States)
Kennedy, Kriss J.
(NASA Johnson Space Center Houston, TX, United States)
Gill, Tracy
(NASA Kennedy Space Center Cocoa Beach, FL, United States)
Date Acquired
May 11, 2015
Publication Date
September 10, 2013
Subject Category
Man/System Technology And Life Support
Meeting Information
Meeting: AIAA SPACE 2013 Conference & Exposition
Location: San Diego, CA
Country: United States
Start Date: September 10, 2013
End Date: September 12, 2013
Sponsors: American Inst. of Aeronautics and Astronautics
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
Other
Keywords
Mars
Deep Space Habitat (DSH)
Deployable Extra-Vehicular Activity Platform (DEVAP)
moon

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