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...
March 2022
What space taught me about water
... foster international cooperation, we could also be living ‘On the Earth, For the Earth’ and for all the life it supports. This sounds like an audacious vision and it is. Oversimplified? Maybe. But each of us needs to make a personal decision about...
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 ...
January 2018
When it comes to water Mars may not be the promised land
... them. This might be easily accomplished by robotic miners, which do not need expensive life support systems and so alleviate the risk posed to human life. Future programmes would benefit from taking this into consideration and, although unlikely...
October 2018
Developing wearable technologies for space and Earth
...implementation of key technologies necessary for the long-term life support and sustained health of a human crew. These ... wide array of integrated sensors, most importantly life support, and health monitoring. By necessity, spacesuits contain...
