19 June 2020
US firm offers flights to edge-of-space under high-tech balloon
... planet, a spaceship for all humanity and our global biosphere,” adds Poynter, who specifies that Neptune’s commercial human ..., were part of the first closed mission of the Biosphere 2 project; an artificial, Earth system science research facility...
July 2020
Investigations into plant growth on the Moon
...some yeast, in an attempt to create a self-sustaining mini biosphere or ecosystem on the lunar surface. The payload, developed by...Earth-based analogues and in microgravity, the mini-biosphere experiment opened a pathway for exploration of plant growth...
23 June 2021
Exoplanets with Earth-like biospheres may be rare
... has the theoretical conditions to sustain an Earth-like biosphere by means of ‘oxygenic’ photosynthesis - the process ...about enough stellar radiation necessary to sustain a large biosphere. Making the dire prediction that habitable planets are few...
16 January 2019
China grows cotton on the Moon
... the Moon, according to scientists involved in the mini biosphere experiment at the Chongqing University in southwest China. After ...China's Chang'e-4 mission has pioneered the first mini biosphere experiment on the lunar surface. The Chang'e-4 probe...
January 2023
Evolving human space culture – reflections on humanity’s cultural potential in space
.... Seeing the positives At this very moment, everything around us is riding along on the huge rocky ‘space station’ biosphere that is planet Earth One frequent observation working among my colleagues employed in the greater space community as well...
April 2021
On Mars as it is on Earth - preparing for settlement
...within the built infrastructure, without the benefit of being refreshed by interactions with a global atmosphere, hydrosphere and biosphere. All manufacturing would have to be local, rather than integrated into the global trading networks and markets...
