David P. D. Munns, Kärin Nickelsen

Far Beyond the Moon (eBook, ePUB)

A History of Life Support Systems in the Space Age

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

From the beginning of the space age, scientists and engineers have worked on systems to help humans survive for the astounding 28,500 days (78 years) needed to reach another planet. They've imagined and tried to create a little piece of Earth in a bubble travelling through space, inside of which people could live for decades, centuries, or even millennia. Far Beyond the Moon tells the dramatic story of engineering efforts by astronauts and scientists to create artificial habitats for humans in orbiting space stations, as well as on journeys to Mars and beyond. Along the way, David P. D. Munns and Kärin Nickelsen explore the often unglamorous but very real problem posed by long-term life support: How can we recycle biological wastes to create air, water, and even food in meticulously controlled artificial environments? Together, they draw attention to the unsung participants of the space programthe sanitary engineers, nutritionists, plant physiologists, bacteriologists, and algologists who created and tested artificial environments for space based on chemical technologies of life supportas well as the bioregenerative algae systems developed to reuse waste, water, and nutrients, so that we might cope with a space journey of not just a few days, but months, or more likely, years.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University Press of Mississippi
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juni 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780822988007
• Artikelnr.: 72254551

Autorenporträt

David P. D. Munns (Author) David P. D. Munns is associate professor of history at John Jay College, City University of New York. Kärin Nickelsen (Author) Kärin Nickelsen is professor of the history of science at Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munich, Germany.