January 2017
Elon Musk and Mars - looking for a snowball effect
...-Moon cycler orbits, creating a market for rocket propellants in low Earth orbit and generating experience with life-support and radiation protection above the Van Allen belts, as well as with artificial gravity in due course, as the...
April 2021
On Mars as it is on Earth - preparing for settlement
... Musk has stated a goal for self-sufficiency of one million people) A large-scale closed-cycle ecological life-support system would need to be in place There would need to be a good understanding of human health factors within a relatively confined...
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...
April 2026
Exploring Mars – the key issues
... to scale. Nevertheless, without belittling the difficulties, it should be possible to generate all the components of rocket fuel and life support on Mars. Indeed, Mars mission analyst Dr Donald Rapp believes the simplest solution for the first Mars...
