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University’s Human Spaceflight Laboratory opens at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Pablo de Le\u00f3n, professor and director of UND’s Human Spaceflight Laboratory, has been able to advance work on his 3D-printed spacesuit project by moving pieces of his lab to NASA’s Kennedy Space Center. Sen Kevin Cramer, R-N.D., toured the new lab space back in March. Photo courtesy of the Office of Sen. Kevin Cramer (R-ND).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

UND\u2019s Space Studies department has a new lab, but you won\u2019t be able to find it near the Human Spaceflight Laboratory in Clifford Hall on campus. Nor will you find it across the interstate, where the Inflatable Lunar\/Mars Habitat is located.<\/p>\n

Nor will you find it anywhere else in Grand Forks, or even North Dakota.<\/p>\n

Instead, you\u2019ll have to go nearly 2,000 miles south and east \u2013 to the Space Coast itself.<\/p>\n

At NASA\u2019s Kennedy Space Center, on Merritt Island, Fla., UND now has a lab all its own.<\/p>\n

Space Studies has taken up residence in the Space Life Sciences Laboratory, a building in NASA\u2019s Floridian hub.<\/p>\n

The move was years in the making, and the hope is to maintain an official presence for years to come, said Pablo de Le\u00f3n, professor, chair of the Space Studies Department and director of the Human Spaceflight Laboratory.<\/p>\n

UND was on a two-year waitlist for the chance to occupy one of the more than 40 total labs in the Space Life Sciences building<\/a>. Now that the wait is over, de Le\u00f3n\u2019s goal is to increase the number of internships available to students in his lab, thereby bringing both distance and on-campus students to Kennedy Space Center.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe decided to go ahead with this because of the number of relationships we have developed with NASA and the closeness to the center of activities taking place,\u201d de Le\u00f3n said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis will increase the opportunities for our students to do NASA internships, and we intend to bring graduate students to the Kennedy Space Center on a regular basis to work on current and future projects.\u201d<\/p>\n

Moreover, this latest move has already proven its value \u2013 giving de Le\u00f3n unprecedented access to equipment and resources as he works on what could potentially be the next generation of spacesuits<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Horticulture experiments and crops have been grown during past Inflatable Lunar\/Mars Habitat missions to supplement the diet of team members in the plant production module. In this archival photo, mission specialist Peter Henson tends an experimental hydroponic irrigation system. UND archival image.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

For the past 10 years or so, Space Studies has conducted research in a way that\u2019s created connections between UND and activities in the Space Life Sciences Lab.<\/p>\n

Kennedy Space Center is NASA\u2019s home for most of its nutrition and plant-related space research, according to de Le\u00f3n. And at UND, there is an entire section of the Inflatable Lunar\/Mars Habitat that\u2019s dedicated to plant production.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen we decided on that module, the experts at Kennedy Space Center were the ones who gave us the blueprints to make it happen,\u201d de Le\u00f3n remarked. \u201cFrom the technical aspects of the lighting to the dimensions of the trays used for planting, we learned from them and worked closely to put it all together.\u201d<\/p>\n

Since the habitat\u2019s assembly five years ago, the plant production module has played a role in nearly all of its missions<\/a>. And in the Space Studies department, space agriculture has been an ongoing topic of interest and research<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Earlier this year, UND also hosted Grand Farm\u2019s Space Ag Conference<\/a>, which focused on the future of agriculture, both in space and on Earth. The conference provided opportunities for NASA and North Dakota-based researchers and businesses to interact and exchange ideas.<\/p>\n

Factor in de Le\u00f3n\u2019s years of NASA-funded research<\/a>, as well as UND\u2019s extended history of NASA involvement<\/a>, and the Human Spaceflight Laboratory annex starts to make sense.<\/p>\n

\u201cUND is a great place for our research, for a number of reasons,\u201d de Le\u00f3n said. \u201cBut UND is also far from any NASA center, which can work against us when trying to participate in projects. The creation of this lab annex widens our horizons in the number of projects and things we can work on.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Sen. Kevin Cramer, R-N.D., was among the first VIPs to visit UND’s new lab annex at Kennedy Space Center. Cramer has shown support for UND’s space-related activities on a number of occasions. Photo courtesy of the Office of Sen. Kevin Cramer (R-ND).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In the time since setting up shop in the Space Life Sciences Laboratory, de Le\u00f3n has moved a number of the lab\u2019s 3D printing machines from UND to Florida. The move started a new chapter in de Le\u00f3n\u2019s three-year, $750,000 project testing the viability of 3D-printed materials for space exploration.<\/p>\n

Since late 2020, de Le\u00f3n\u2019s research on a 3D-printed spacesuit prototype has happened on campus, using multiple printers to transform plastics into flexible, durable materials that can withstand the stresses of space.<\/p>\n

And given the limited space of the lab annex \u2013 a single, fully equipped room among dozens of others \u2013 work will still be happening at UND. But it\u2019s the levels of access that come with the territory that are as important as the actual workspace.<\/p>\n

Back in March, Sen. Kevin Cramer, R-N.D., visited the UND lab<\/a> during a tour of Kennedy Space Center and saw the prototype first-hand. De Le\u00f3n remarked that Cramer was the lab\u2019s first \u201cVIP visitor,\u201d and that the senator was interested in how UND and NASA\u2019s relationship has developed over time.<\/p>\n

Also earlier this year, de Le\u00f3n connected with a University of Florida researcher, Andrew Schuerger, who developed a Mars environmental chamber housed at Space Life Sciences. The small, pressurized chamber can replicate the surface conditions of Earth\u2019s planetary neighbor, from atmosphere to temperature to radiation.<\/p>\n

Schuerger originally developed the chamber to test biological specimens \u2013 to see how microbes can grow on Mars in cases of human contamination, for instance \u2013 but de Le\u00f3n was intrigued by its potential versatility.<\/p>\n

\u201cI asked if we could test some of the materials and compare them with traditional spacesuit material, because we so far have no idea how compatible these new materials will be with the Martian environment,\u201d de Le\u00f3n said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere are still a number of unknowns with 3D-printed materials we\u2019ve developed, such as how they react to drastic changes in temperature, and what gases they might release in those conditions.\u201d<\/p>\n

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De Le\u00f3n and Schuerger stand next to the Mars environmental chamber, which de Leon used to test 3D-printed pieces of spacesuit alongside traditional, cloth suit material. Over the next few months, data will resolve how well the plastic materials handled Mars-like conditions and temperature changes. Photo courtesy of Pablo de Le\u00f3n.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

With Schuerger\u2019s help, de Le\u00f3n ran hours-long tests on spacesuit pieces. Over the next few months, mechanical engineering researchers at UND will test the differences between exposed materials and unaltered samples. Other data from the experiment will help de Le\u00f3n answer questions of gasses released by the plastics.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is a key experiment, because it will help us see if this technology is worth exploring further, not just for spacesuits, but any applications in space that could use this material,\u201d de Le\u00f3n said. \u201cWhat\u2019s intriguing about all of this is the potential to manufacture objects at the destination, rather than on Earth.\u201d<\/p>\n

From de Le\u00f3n\u2019s perspective, this step in the project was possible because the two scientists worked in the same building. In other cases, the costs and logistics of using the equipment might have been prohibitive, and now de Le\u00f3n can readily collaborate with geographically distant peer researchers.<\/p>\n

\u201cOver time, we\u2019ll be able to increase and enhance the studies that we\u2019re doing in the department and at the habitat because of what can only be done at Kennedy Space Center,\u201d de Le\u00f3n said. \u201cThe instruments we have are great, but we don\u2019t have the millions of dollars in equipment that\u2019s available at NASA.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The Space Life Sciences Laboratory, located at the Kennedy Space Center complex on Merritt Island, Fla. For incoming Ph.D. student Amanda Ireland, the lab hosting UND is conveniently located along her drive home from work at Boeing’s production facility at Kennedy. Creative Commons image.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Amanda Ireland\u2019s experience at the lab has also shown how UND\u2019s new space can attract more Space Coast talent to the program. After all, the Space Life Sciences Laboratory is just down the road from her day job at Boeing.<\/p>\n

As a launch operations engineer working on the Starliner mission<\/a>, Ireland was looking for a part-time, distance Ph.D. opportunity. UND was on the shortlist, and de Le\u00f3n was highly recommended by some of her UND alumni colleagues, but it was the fact that UND had a local lab that pushed her to start taking classes online and apply for a Ph.D. program spot starting this fall.<\/p>\n

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Amanda Ireland<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cThere were a number of things exposing me to the work happening at UND, in Dr. de Le\u00f3n\u2019s lab, and I was impressed and thought it was a good fit,\u201d Ireland said. \u201cIt\u2019s super convenient for me, as a part-time student, to go to work in the morning then go to the lab afterward. It\u2019s right on my way home.\u201d<\/p>\n

This summer, she\u2019s been able to access the lab annex to work on a project for one of her UND Space Studies courses.<\/p>\n

Ireland is studying how to control a custom lighting system that NASA gave to the University, which is a far cry from your everyday fixture-and-bulb. According to de Le\u00f3n, NASA designed the lights specifically for use on the International Space Station. It\u2019s possible to change the color and temperature, among other adjustments. The idea behind the system was to have different effects on crew members living in space for months on end.<\/p>\n

As this lighting system is installed at UND, in the Inflatable Lunar\/Mars Habitat, Ireland is working on a software interface that can help UND\u2019s crews meet the needs of their missions and harness the advanced technology.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat\u2019s cool is that, while this was developed for space use, it has the right scale for the ILMH at UND,\u201d Ireland said. \u201cAnd we\u2019re really interested by the color tuning of the system. When you\u2019re in an environment that doesn\u2019t have normal circadian inputs, that kind of light can become really important.\u201d<\/p>\n

And as someone with experience in the industry, as well as a daily commute through the country\u2019s most iconic spaceport, Ireland has a good sense for what\u2019s waiting for future students.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve been here for three and a half years, and you\u2019re exposed to so many different networks in the industry that will help you in your career,\u201d she said. \u201cAnd at the lab, you\u2019re surrounded by people working toward shared goals and missions, and it really motivates you in your work.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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