March 2017
Growing plastic-producing bacteria in space
... efforts are therefore being directed towards increasing self-sufficiency and thereby Earth independence in order to make long-term space missions such as NASA’s ‘Journey to Mars’ both possible and practical. Matt Damon growing crops on Mars in The...
November 2020
Space medicine and terrestrial health care
... makes it possible to perform model investigations for the simulation of long-term space missions, for example in isolation, dry immersion and short-arm centrifuge techniques. Space physiology and medicine provide plentiful experimental findings for...
May 2017
Recipe for success on flights to Mars
... be rehydrated or reheated. Ideally, space food should be lightweight, compact in volume, nutritious, easy to prepare, eat and clean up (microgravity complicates all of these requirements), long lasting and delicious. For a mission to Mars, food will...
November 2021
The philosophy of space missions today
...apply biomedical modifications to adapt humans to the harsh environmental conditions in space. These are matters that should be studied in detail before the first long-term space missions beyond Earth orbit, and for those tasked with making decisions...
