February 2019
A universal spaceship design concept
... spaceship front-pyramid is balanced by a special inner structure in segment 5. The available gravity enables a variety of life support components: hydroponic planting, nutrient solution channels, biomass fermentation and abrasion free hydro-magnetic...
November 2016
Hi-tech greenhouse to test plant cultivation technologies in Antarctica
... Research Associate at the German Aerospace Center (DLR). Giorgio Boscheri is an Advanced Life Support Engineer at Thales Alenia Space Italia in the department of Life Support and Habitat. References 1EDEN ISS project website: http://www.eden-iss.net...
July 2019
Settling the final frontier
... water supplies in the form of large bodies of ice on and below the surface. NASA is also developing rovers, life support systems, and other technologies to enable long-term survival in harsh environments. Designs for living “If we humans want...
July 2021
Commercial space stations - fulfilling the dream
... whole thing from the transportation back and forth, and everything that comprises the platform including life support systems. The only thing we don’t have right now is a launch vehicle, but everything else we’ll be able to provide...
November 2019
PROSPECTing for lunar polar volatiles
..., harvesting of water and generation of oxygen for astronaut life support, and other applications supporting a future human presence. Therefore both scientists and engineers have supported the recent creation of new lunar exploration programmes, and...
October 2021
Mining lunar hydrogen
... outgassing sites on the Moon, as that it is where it can be best collected at minimum cost. The protective spacesuits and life support systems of Apollo allowed astronauts such as Jack Schmidt to work for more than seven hours in the harsh...
