A Makerspace for Life Support Systems in Space.

A Makerspace for Life Support Systems in Space. Trends Biotechnol. 2019 Jul 04;: Authors: Snyder JE, Walsh D, Carr PA, Rothschild LJ Abstract Human space exploration and settlement will require leaps forward in life support for environmental management and healthcare. Life support systems must efficiently use nonrenewable resources packed from Earth while increasingly relying on resources available locally in space. On-demand production of components and materials (e.g., 3D printing and synthetic biology) holds promise to satisfy the evolving set of supplies necessary to outfit human missions to space. We consider here life support systems for missions planned in the 2020s, and discuss how the maker and 'do-it-yourself' (DIY) biology communities can develop rapid, on-demand manufacturing techniques and platforms to address these needs. This Opinion invites the diverse maker community into building the next generation of flight hardware for near-term space exploration. PMID: 31303341 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Trends in Biotechnology - Category: Biotechnology Authors: Tags: Trends Biotechnol Source Type: research