January 2023
Producing food in space
... taste like anything it is used as an ingredient for. Even photosynthesis, the method plants use to convert energy into nutrition, is not as efficient as this method and, unlike conventional food production, it takes just a fraction of the water and...
January 2023
The effects of spaceflight on the female body
... the complex of key nutrients during prolonged exposure of the body to spaceflight factors required to correct the nutrition of cosmonauts. These studies allow us to understand the processes of metabolic adaptation of the body to new conditions. When...
May 2017
Growing plants without gravity
... productivity of the mizuna plant. The average amount of aerophilous microorganisms corresponded to the normal amounts recommended for nutrition with crews that remain on the ISS for up to 360 days. A super-dwarf wheat growing experiment for...
February 2018
European centre shifts emphasis to deep space missions
... water cheaply and easily using a new type of biomimetic membrane that copies nature, and Nutritional Assessment, examining nutrition for astronauts in extreme environments. CAVES (Cooperative Adventure for Valuing and Exercising human behaviour and...
March 2017
Growing plastic-producing bacteria in space
Throughout time the human race has displayed a strong desire to explore and conquer new lands and in modern times a completely new frontier has opened up - space. But space exploration is limited by very high cost and extreme risk. Experience in low...
August 2017
Planning for health, sex and sleep on a future Mars colony
... on Mars would likely be impossible, some form of food production would be necessary to supply the colony with adequate nutrition to sustain itself. And unlike air and water, which can be produced from local Martian resources, food...
