We live in a world that is being affected by the COVID-19 Pandemic. With the Artemis program aiming to return to the moon in 2024 and giving that this is the perfect time to learn from the procedures we are creating to support our place in the exploration of Space and other remote locations even on our own Planet. We must be ready for everything and that should also include new Pandemic diseases. For this Challenge we created a scenario where a Lunar Expedition, has to endure the fact that some drastic measures have been taken and Mission Control might not be able to be present during their journey to the moon and during their stay. In this project we address the challenge “A World Away” with a Graphical User Interface, which we use as a therapy bot that, among other things, evaluates levels of oxygen, water, food and fuel resources in the spaceship in order to ensure its sustainability and avoid misuse of those resources. Another function it does is the evaluation of physical and emotional health of astronauts during the mission and give them feedback in order to improve those levels and avoid serious physical or psychological illnesses caused by the isolation, lack of exercise, or even eating disorders. This is inspired on the telemedicine projects from NASA, such as Actigraphy, a device used to monitor the astronauts and people around the world by the recovery of their movement and light reception. There are more functions like these that have to do with other issues and the restoration of resources in the spacecraft.
While discussing which subject our project should be about we agreed that both astronauts and citizens shared one problem that is very present in this time, healthiness during isolation. We decided to make a system which helps astronauts verify the physical and psychological health in each astronaut, on a test in which they express how they have felt, if they have fulfilled their basic needs, done exercise and much other factors which help us to understand their state and make action in case it is needed, giving them advice in the areas they have problems with. This in order to show astronauts they are not alone and feel they have support covering their backs.
Then we figured out that mission control would have problems if they all gathered in one place, giving risk to the crew of acquiring COVID-19. That's why we also made a programmed assistant which calculates the base sustainability, and finds problems in the space suits and verifies all the systems needed to accomplish a mission given information acquired by the developing mission. Giving a support on level of the one given by ground control.
All of this was made in JAVA language and has a GUI in order to have a more friendly sistem which helps the astronauts in their missions and makes them feel safe.
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