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<p>The Deep Space Habitat project delivers concepts for light-weight, safe and reliable exploration habitats capable of:<br />     o Supporting humans living and working in space and on planetary bodies<br />     o Autonomous operation<br />     o Systems failure detection, analysis, and self-repair<br /><br />The Deep Space Habitat project investigates habitation concepts for multiple destinations such as:<br />     o Cis-lunar space<br />     o Interplanetary Space (to include Near Earth Asteroids)<br /><br />This is to drive out opportunities for commonality, early development investment, and early risk mitigation. This project also focuses on maturing exploration habitation subsystems such as:<br />     o Structures and mechanisms<br />     o Environmental control and life support systems<br />     o Active and passive thermal control systems<br />     o Power management and distribution<br />     o Avionics<br />     o Software management system<br />     o Communications<br />     o Environmental protection & particulate (dust) mitigation<br />     o Mission operations/command & control<br />     o Crew systems/interfaces: displays & controls, galleys, quarters<br />     o Extravehicular activity & robotics<br />     o Instrumentation & sensors<br />     o Food supplementation</p><p><br />The process for the Deep Space Habitat project to deliver on these objectives include iterative loops of:<br />     o Concept definition and development<br />     o Systems integration<br />     o Testing<br />     o Building and outfitting habitation prototypes<br /><br />The habitat prototypes function as a(n)<br />     o Technology pull<br />     o Test bed<br />     o Integration capability<br />to advance NASA’s understanding of alternative<br />     o Mission architectures<br />     o Requirements<br />     o Operations concepts definition and validation</p>