February 2022
Extremophiles as a blueprint for universal life
... resets the boundaries of macromolecular stability and biochemical pathways. Organisms which provide anti-microbial substances reside in habitats where the molecules they produce often confer a permissive advantage for host survival by crowding out...
February 2023
How to grow plants in a spacecraft
...peppers in the ISS in 2021 for the Plant-Habitat 04 investigation. Bioregenerative life support system Eating freeze-dried...around, two aspects that make it disadvantageous. The Advanced Plant Habitat (APH) installed in the ISS has already grown a ...
September 2023
The Institute of Biomedical Problems - Sixty years of contributing to the development of space biomedicine
...and other bio-objects. Such studies help to substantiate ways of preventing pathological body changes, to create an artificial habitat that would ensure professional activity of cosmonauts without harming their health and adequate return to the Earth...
September 2023
How microorganisms survive space travel
... of awakening dormant forms by adequate signals. The data obtained in the last decades in the field of research of natural habitats testify to the long-term survival of organisms in a state of deep dormancy under the most extreme conditions. The...
October 2024
Lunar construction with regolith and robots
...and debris on spacecraft and surface structures, insights crucial for designing landing systems and constructing stable habitats on other planets. Figure 7. Top: Examples of OpenFOAM and OpenSeesPy Simulation; above: CAD model of dirty vacuum chamber...
18 September 2017
'Mars crew' emerge from isolation after 8 months study on Hawaii
...subjects who have been tucked away in a Mars-like habitat on a remote Hawaii island for the last eight months,...might be like from a physical and geological perspective, but the habitat is also designed to simulate how contact with recipients on Earth ...
