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2011 | OriginalPaper | Chapter

8. Life Support Systems

Author : Gilles Clément

Published in: Fundamentals of Space Medicine

Publisher: Springer New York

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Abstract

It is certainly true that robots like the Mars Pathfinder, Spirit, and Opportunity have shown that a lot of scientific information about a planet’s surface can be gathered by sending robots instead of people. As well, it can be done significantly cheaper. But imagine that you wanted to go to Paris. Would you be satisfied with a robot… taking very good pictures of the Eiffel Tower and chemically sampling the French food?

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Footnotes
1
The history of space food and the methods of food preservation and preparation used by NASA are described in a.pdf document “Space Food and Nutrition. An Educator’s Guide With Activities in Science and Mathematics”, EG-1999-02-115-HQ, which can be downloaded from the NASA web site at http://​search.​nasa.​gov/​search/​edFilterSearch.​jsp?​empty=​true [Accessed 8 October 2010].
 
2
The Russian supplied toilet paper is not like what one normally thinks of as toilet paper. It consists of two layers of coarsely woven gauze, 10 by 15 cm in dimension sewn together at the edges with a layer of brown tissue sandwiched in-between. According to the astronauts, “it works very well for its intended purpose” [Pettit, 2003].
 
3
The use of this acronym in the literature is sometime confusing. Typical NASA engineers use ECLSS for Environmental Control and Life Support System, i.e., a group of devices that allow a human being to survive during a space mission. The scientific community uses CELSS for Closed (or Controlled) Ecological Life Support System, i.e., a type of scientific endeavor to create a self-supporting life support system. It is this second definition that is being used in this book.
 
4
The (debated) options to manipulate Earth’s environment to specifically counteract the effects of global warming are called geo-engineering rather than terraforming.
 
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Metadata
Title
Life Support Systems
Author
Gilles Clément
Copyright Year
2011
Publisher
Springer New York
Book
Fundamentals of Space Medicine

Print ISBN: 978-1-4419-9904-7

Electronic ISBN: 978-1-4419-9905-4

Copyright Year: 2011

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-9905-4_8

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