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Earth Science 2019 Journal of EnvironmentalWaste Management and Recycling | Volume 2
Page 14
May 22-23, 2019 | Rome, Italy
EARTH SCIENCE,
RECYCLING & SPACE TECHNOLOGY
7th International Conference on OF EXCELLENCE
IN INTERNATIONAL
MEETINGS
YEARS
SPACE HABITATIONS, TECHNICAL
ASPECTS AND INTERNATIONAL
COOPERATION
Being terrestrial for some millions of years, humanity is now advancing in
the direction of being extra-terrestrial. Attempts made until now have
all been successful, walking on the Moon, and living in stations for month’s
miles away from earth. In the coming decades, it is easily predictable that
menwill spend time onMoon in lunar shelters for periods longer than“Short
visits”. This will be followed by going to Mars and other space bodies. Such
achievements will be realized thanks to space research conducted in space
agencies all around world, especially by countries who can afford huge
amounts of money in this field. In fact, space research is amulti-dimensional,
multi-disciplinary field where important contributions can be made without
having much financial support. Such an approach, evidently, will increase
international cooperation in the field and will help increasing technological
and scientific levels of all countries that join this research subject. Designing
shelters specially adapted to lunar environmental conditions, and finding
ways of construction techniques for building them but a field where many
researchers from many countries can attack; A related field is producing lu-
nar soil simulants on earth andmaking experiments on them for using lunar
soil as the only in situ resource available in construction and for extracting
other compounds and elements that will be needed for human survival on
Moon. It is to be noted that up to date nine countries have produced lunar
soil simulants and this number is increasing continuously. It is remarkable
also that among these countries there are some who cannot be classified as
financially very strong capable of sending probes to Moon or Mars or even
to Earth’s orbit. This proves the feasibility of conducting space research inter-
nationally with as much as countries and organizations on Earth.
Y Cengiz Toklu, J Environ Waste Management and Recycling 2019, Volume 2
Y Cengiz Toklu did his BS, MS in Civil Engineer-
ing, Middle East Technical University, Turkey in
1967 and 1969; Dr. Ing. Institut de Mecanique
Theorique et Appliquée, Faculté des Sciences,
Université Paris VI (Pierre et Marie CURIE), Paris,
France, 1976. His current research interest is in
Optimization in engineering, nonlinear structural
analysis, construction project scheduling, space
civil engineering and engineering education.
He is the creator of the method “Total Potential
Optimization using Metaheuristic Algorithms
(TPO/MA)” which gives very successful results in
analyzing nonlinear and degenerate structural
systems. Currently he is working on a project that
aims at producing lunar soil simulant in Turkey.
Y Cengiz Toklu
Beykent University, Turkey
BIOGRAPHY
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