David P. D. Munns & Kärin Nickelsen 
Far Beyond the Moon [EPUB ebook] 
A History of Life Support Systems in the Space Age

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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. <i>Far Beyond the Moon</i> 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 program—the sanitary engineers, nutritionists, plant physiologists, bacteriologists, and algologists who created and tested artificial environments for space based on chemical technologies of life support—as 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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<b>David P. D. Munns (Author) </b><br> <b>David P. D. Munns </b>is associate professor of history at John Jay College, City University of New York.<br><br><b>Kärin Nickelsen (Author) </b><br> <b>Kärin Nickelsen</b> is professor of the history of science at Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munich, Germany.<br><br>

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Мова Англійська ● Формат EPUB ● Сторінки 308 ● ISBN 9780822988007 ● Розмір файлу 13.3 MB ● Видавець University of Pittsburgh Press ● Місто PIttsburgh ● Країна US ● Опубліковано 2021 ● Завантажувані 24 місяців ● Валюта EUR ● Посвідчення особи 7821377 ● Захист від копіювання Adobe DRM
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