SOM's Moon Village concept goes on display in new Space Mission exhibition
The four-year-old Moon Village concept developed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM) in collaboration with the European Space Agency will again be displayed as part of the new Space Mission exhibition that recently opened at the Cité des Sciences et de l'Industrie museum in Paris.The concept offers a preliminary disciplinary model for a possible human settlement in outer space with a single habitat module placed on the outer rim of the Shackleton Crater on the lunar South Pole. It was developed by SOM and the ESA in unison with engineers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) using existing research into human psychology, architecture, and astrophysics to create a long-term living space for astronauts. Read the full post on Bustler
The four-year-old Moon Village concept developed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM) in collaboration with the European Space Agency will again be displayed as part of the new Space Mission exhibition that recently opened at the Cité des Sciences et de l'Industrie museum in Paris.
The concept offers a preliminary disciplinary model for a possible human settlement in outer space with a single habitat module placed on the outer rim of the Shackleton Crater on the lunar South Pole. It was developed by SOM and the ESA in unison with engineers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) using existing research into human psychology, architecture, and astrophysics to create a long-term living space for astronauts. Read the full post on Bustler
