February 2016
A Self-Deployable Habitat for Extreme Environments (SHEE)
..., and has not yet been completely achieved by the industry as a whole, but the Environmental Control and Life Support System (ECLSS) of SHEE is successful in recycling water and regenerating consumed air. ECLSS components are provided in the...
July 2020
Key technologies for space exploration
...the engine cool enough to survive the hellish combustion temperatures and pressures The design of environmental and life support systems for crewed spacecraft represents a completely different challenge for engineers, but is no less important for the...
February 2022
Nutritional issues on interplanetary spaceflights
..., Mikhail Kornienko and Alexander Skvortsov having lunch. ISS Expedition 23, 2010. Experiment As experience of human spacecraft life support systems has been accumulated, principles of nutrition supply systems have become more precise and nutrition...
26 April 2021
Microbes could potentially live beneath Mars' surface, new study suggests
... could produce the same kind of chemical energy that supports microbial life deep beneath Earth’s surface, meaning that these tiny...old, were found to have the highest potential for life support say Tarnas and colleagues. Better still, because Mars ...
January 2017
Mini space station for mice to study effects of reproduction in reduced gravity
... use robotic systems to provide for all of the physiological needs of the mice including feeding, cleaning, life support, waste removal, and medical care. Tunnel access between the enclosures would be controlled remotely by veterinarians on Earth...
January 2017
Blueprint for NASA’s journey to Mars
... the event of an emergency. The Hab could be discarded in a crisis situation because the closed loop environmental life support system hardware is contained in the smaller Crew Quarters modules that are surrounded by the cryogenic hydrogen and ...
