International Space Settlement Design Competition: Industry experience for students
When Star Trek first beamed into our living rooms through television channels a few decades back, it cast a vision of a future for humankind. That vision was about having a settlement in space. Gradually yet steadily the space research is getting closer to realising that vision. Almost 70 years have passed since the first broadcast, and while we have not yet established a colony in space, we have made a permanent settlement of sorts there - the International Space Station (ISS). Now, astronauts from several countries take turns to stay there as part of the ISS crew, with rockets from NASA or Russia ferrying loads of essential supplies to them. Space settlement, or, rather space colonisation, has been a long cherished desire for mankind. The most recent exploration towards finding a habitable environment in space was the NASA rover exploration on Mars. The intent was to find traces of atmospheric elements that could support life on the Red Planet the same way life is sup...