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The next stage of human space exploration will involve longer missions off-Earth, and the Humanity in Deep Space initiative is considering what and how astronauts on these missions will eat.
University of Kentucky chef Bob Perry is working with scientists to better understand how space agencies will keep astronauts on long space missions well-fed.
We can’t solve the plastics packaging pollution issue by reducing or eliminating material only, but we can innovate and partner our way out of it.
Mars may now be a frozen, barren wasteland, but analysis of Perseverance images has shown that Jezero Crater was once a lake fed by a river.
Abstract This article uses the history of an unrealized technology to rethink conventional accounts of American spaceflight that cast the space cabin as the ultimate expression of human’s capacity to technologically master their environments. Drawing on archival and published sources, I detail the history of the bioregenerative life-support system, a system in which simple organisms—most commonly algae—would inhabit the spacecraft and, through a series of interspecies symbioses, maintain cabin conditions and sustain astronaut life. By homing in on the maintenance practices of the system...