2020 — Habitat Sizing Tool

November 16, 2020

Author: David Smitherman, Justin Rowe, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center.

The Habitat Sizing Tool has been in development since 2007 to assist in the calculation of mass properties for habitat designs by the Advanced Concepts Office. It began as a simple tool using data from several reference publications and eventually expanded to include all disciplines using physics based calculations where needed. Variable inputs include number of crew, number of mission days, number of EVA’s, and location in orbits out to Mars and on the surface of the Moon or Mars.

Also available online at:

NASA Technical Report Server: https://ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/20205008227

American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics: https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/book/10.2514/MASCEND20