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While the Mars Society has already developed two operational MARS units - the F-MARS in the Canadian Arcticand the MDRS in Utah, USA, the intention with Euro-MARS was always not to simply follow what had gone before, but investigate ways and means of making the third Mars Analogue Research Station an improvement on the current designs, to both give the Society a habitat unit that is closer in interior fit-out to the type of habitat unit that could fly humans to Mars, and also investigate ways and means of using the interior space of the habitat more effectively than the current design.

To this end, an extensive design process was entered into by members of the Euro-MARS project team, with design options being developed in France, German and The Netherlands. These were individually reviewed by the project management team and the combine design teams from each country, with innovations from each being incorporated into the final design that will be used on location in Iceland from 2005.

The following pages present drawing of some of the initial designs submitted by the three design teams.

France

The French design retained the basic two-deck approach of the F-MARS and MDRS, developing a compact habitat that featured a lower deck with:

  • A large laboratory / medical facility
  • An airlock / equipment locker
  • EVA preparation room for donning / doffing space suits
  • A small fabrication space for making repairs to equipment
  • A Command and control centre that could double as a "radiation shelter"
  • Hygiene facilities
  • A central core with additional storage space and the ladder to the upper deck.

 

The upper deck of the habitat again made maximum use of space, providing:

  • A central communial area with a dining table and chairs
  • A workspace annex opening off of the central area with computer workstations and a large window
  • A galley annex opening off of the central area
  • Additional storage contained in a third annex
  • 3 pairs of single bunkrooms dividing the annex areas from one another, each cabin providing a crewmember with a bed and a private workstation

Above this deck was an "loft" area providing additional storage space and room for the main water tank, heating system, etc.

The main drawbacks with the French design were the need for everything to be placed in the minimum of space, which left a large ceiling volume under the dome of the habitat unused, and the team felt this could be improved upon if this space was treated as additional deck space.

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