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Controlled ecological life-support system - Use of plants for human life-support in spaceScientists and engineers within NASA are conducting research which will lead to development of advanced life-support systems that utilize higher plants in a unique approach to solving long-term life-support problems in space. This biological solution to life-support, Controlled Ecological Life-Support System (CELSS), is a complex, extensively controlled, bioengineered system that relies on plants to provide the principal elements from gas exchange and food production to potable water reclamation. Research at John F. Kennedy Space Center (KSC) is proceeding with a comprehensive investigation of the individual parts of the CELSS system at a one-person scale in an approach called the Breadboard Project. Concurrently a relatively new NASA sponsored research effort is investigating plant growth and metabolism in microgravity, innovative hydroponic nutrient delivery systems, and use of highly efficient light emitting diodes for artificial plant illumination.
Document ID
19930044718
Acquisition Source
Legacy CDMS
Document Type
Reprint (Version printed in journal)
Authors
Chamberland, D.
(NASA John F. Kennedy Space Center Cocoa Beach, FL, United States)
Knott, W. M.
(NASA John F. Kennedy Space Center Cocoa Beach, FL, United States)
Sager, J. C.
(NASA John F. Kennedy Space Center Cocoa Beach, FL, United States)
Wheeler, R.
(NASA Kennedy Space Center Cocoa Beach, FL, United States)
Date Acquired
August 16, 2013
Publication Date
August 1, 1992
Publication Information
Publication: Florida Medical Association, Journal
Volume: 79
Issue: 8
ISSN: 0015-4148
Subject Category
Man/System Technology And Life Support
Accession Number
93A28715
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
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