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Towards synthetic biological approaches to resource utilization on space missions
This paper demonstrates the significant utility of deploying non-traditional biological techniques to harness available volatiles and waste resources on manned missions to explore the Moon and Mars. Compared with anticipated non-biological approaches, it is determined that for 916 day Martian missio...
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The Royal Society
2015
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4277073/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25376875 http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsif.2014.0715 |
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author | Menezes, Amor A. Cumbers, John Hogan, John A. Arkin, Adam P. |
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description | This paper demonstrates the significant utility of deploying non-traditional biological techniques to harness available volatiles and waste resources on manned missions to explore the Moon and Mars. Compared with anticipated non-biological approaches, it is determined that for 916 day Martian missions: 205 days of high-quality methane and oxygen Mars bioproduction with Methanobacterium thermoautotrophicum can reduce the mass of a Martian fuel-manufacture plant by 56%; 496 days of biomass generation with Arthrospira platensis and Arthrospira maxima on Mars can decrease the shipped wet-food mixed-menu mass for a Mars stay and a one-way voyage by 38%; 202 days of Mars polyhydroxybutyrate synthesis with Cupriavidus necator can lower the shipped mass to three-dimensional print a 120 m(3) six-person habitat by 85% and a few days of acetaminophen production with engineered Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 can completely replenish expired or irradiated stocks of the pharmaceutical, thereby providing independence from unmanned resupply spacecraft that take up to 210 days to arrive. Analogous outcomes are included for lunar missions. Because of the benign assumptions involved, the results provide a glimpse of the intriguing potential of ‘space synthetic biology’, and help focus related efforts for immediate, near-term impact. |
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spelling | pubmed-42770732015-01-06 Towards synthetic biological approaches to resource utilization on space missions Menezes, Amor A. Cumbers, John Hogan, John A. Arkin, Adam P. J R Soc Interface Review Articles This paper demonstrates the significant utility of deploying non-traditional biological techniques to harness available volatiles and waste resources on manned missions to explore the Moon and Mars. Compared with anticipated non-biological approaches, it is determined that for 916 day Martian missions: 205 days of high-quality methane and oxygen Mars bioproduction with Methanobacterium thermoautotrophicum can reduce the mass of a Martian fuel-manufacture plant by 56%; 496 days of biomass generation with Arthrospira platensis and Arthrospira maxima on Mars can decrease the shipped wet-food mixed-menu mass for a Mars stay and a one-way voyage by 38%; 202 days of Mars polyhydroxybutyrate synthesis with Cupriavidus necator can lower the shipped mass to three-dimensional print a 120 m(3) six-person habitat by 85% and a few days of acetaminophen production with engineered Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 can completely replenish expired or irradiated stocks of the pharmaceutical, thereby providing independence from unmanned resupply spacecraft that take up to 210 days to arrive. Analogous outcomes are included for lunar missions. Because of the benign assumptions involved, the results provide a glimpse of the intriguing potential of ‘space synthetic biology’, and help focus related efforts for immediate, near-term impact. The Royal Society 2015-01-06 /pmc/articles/PMC4277073/ /pubmed/25376875 http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsif.2014.0715 Text en http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ © 2014 The Authors. Published by the Royal Society under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/, which permits unrestricted use, provided the original author and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Review Articles Menezes, Amor A. Cumbers, John Hogan, John A. Arkin, Adam P. Towards synthetic biological approaches to resource utilization on space missions |
title | Towards synthetic biological approaches to resource utilization on space missions |
title_full | Towards synthetic biological approaches to resource utilization on space missions |
title_fullStr | Towards synthetic biological approaches to resource utilization on space missions |
title_full_unstemmed | Towards synthetic biological approaches to resource utilization on space missions |
title_short | Towards synthetic biological approaches to resource utilization on space missions |
title_sort | towards synthetic biological approaches to resource utilization on space missions |
topic | Review Articles |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4277073/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25376875 http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsif.2014.0715 |
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