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Architecture For Other Planets
Author(s) -
Howe A Scott
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
architectural design
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.128
H-Index - 22
eISSN - 1554-2769
pISSN - 0003-8504
DOI - 10.1002/ad.1830
Subject(s) - architecture , planet , space (punctuation) , robotics , set (abstract data type) , artificial intelligence , robot , space exploration , computer science , architectural engineering , engineering , astrobiology , systems engineering , aeronautics , aerospace engineering , visual arts , art , operating system , physics , astrophysics , programming language
Opportunities for Space Architecture are proliferating over time. As NASA architect and robotics engineer A Scott Howe , however, explains, a varied skill set is required to develop the right specialist expertise to become a space architect. Extreme environmental factors always have to be taken into consideration when designing for Space. These vary from lack of gravity, extreme variations in temperature and exposure to abrasive materials, such as lunar dust. Architects also need to develop an acute awareness of transportation systems and robotic constructions. It is, though, only with prototyping that designs, systems and materials can start to be tested.