Veronica De Micco, Chiara Amitrano, Felice Mastroleo, Giovanna Aronne, Alberto Battistelli, Eugenie Carnero-Diaz, Stefania De Pascale, Gisela Detrell, Claude-Gilles Dussap, Ramon Ganigué, Øyvind Mejdell Jakobsen, Lucie Poulet, Rob Van Houdt, Cyprien Verseux, Siegfried E Vlaeminck, Ronnie Willaert, Natalie Leys
Long-term human space exploration missions require environmental control and closed Life Support Systems (LSS) capable of producing and recycling resources, thus fulfilling all the essential metabolic needs for human survival in harsh space environments, both during travel and on orbital/planetary stations. This will become increasingly necessary as missions reach farther away from Earth, thereby limiting the technical and economic feasibility of resupplying resources from Earth. Further incorporation of biological elements into state-of-the-art (mostly abiotic) LSS, leading to bioregenerative LSS (BLSS), is needed for additional resource recovery, food production, and waste treatment solutions, and to enable more self-sustainable missions to the Moon and Mars...
August 24, 2023: NPJ Microgravity