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 ...
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...
November 2018
Being human in space
... leader Angelo Vermeulen. “As part of that, we are looking at the kind of regenerative life-support system pioneered by the ESA-led MELiSSA (Micro-Ecological Life Support System Alternative) programme.” Space generation Many people only know space...
December 2019
Human conception and childbirth in space
...samples; as a research platform it also enables tests on different developing mammalian embryos for gravity effects and other life support system variables. In that way it can help in the selection of mammal species that will be able to flourish well...
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...
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...
