July 2020
Key technologies for space exploration
... and built a scientific payload that controlled air and liquid systems, to precise levels, allowing scientists to study plant growth in a microgravity environment. This system, the Biomass Production System (BPS), deployed onboard the Space Shuttle...
October 2018
Sustainable ways of living on the Moon and Mars
... agriculture! In fact, many researchers believe that ISRU-led plant production is indeed possible. ‘Macronutrients’ like O2, carbon, ...iron, manganese and zinc would allow for protected plant growth under pressurised domes using local ice-quarried ...
December 2014
Terraforming Mars: from CFCs to Total Recall
..., and Chris McKay at NASA’s Ames Research Center has suggested that we could, in principle, turn Mars into a plant-habitable world. But would we really want to go to great expense to do this? My guess is that vegetables raised on Mars would...
September 2023
How microorganisms survive space travel
... 3 of the Biorisk experiment will be carried out using the same equipment, using similar biological objects (microorganisms, plant seeds, larvae and eggs of insects, crustaceans), but the range of biological samples will be extended to include non...
February 2019
A universal spaceship design concept
... as the generation of artificial gravity sufficient space to implement plants as part of a life support system the optional installation ... during a rotation flight. For example, the six planting segments are distributed equally on both sides of the ...
October 2015
Eating in space: from Michelin-starred chefs to self-sufficiency
... and cooking from scratch in space conditions. The widely acknowledged challenge remains to make it possible to produce enough plants in a self-sustaining, closed-loop ecosystem to sustain space explorers in the long term. The second challenge, less...
