Tag: long-duration missions
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ESA Tests Bacterial Powder to Feed Moon and Mars Crews with HOBI-WAN Plan
ESA Trials Bacterial Powder for Deep-Space Nutrition The European Space Agency (ESA) is pushing a bold, science-fiction-inspired route to sustain astronauts on long-duration missions. In a project codenamed HOBI-WAN (Hydrogen Oxidizing Bacteria In Weightlessness As a source of Nutrition), researchers are testing a powdered bacterial product designed to serve as a scalable food source for…
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ESA Tests Bacterial Powder to Feed Moon and Mars Crews
ESA Aims to Feed Astronauts on the Moon and Mars The European Space Agency (ESA) is advancing a bold approach to space nutrition with a project that has captured attention for its quirky acronym: HOBI-WAN – Hydrogen Oxidizing Bacteria In Weightlessness As a source of Nutrition. The initiative investigates whether a specially prepared bacterial powder…
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HOBI-WAN: ESA tests bacteria powder for space nutrition
ESA pioneers a new kind of space nutrition The European Space Agency (ESA) has announced a bold step in the quest to sustain astronauts on extended lunar and Martian missions. In a project cheekily dubbed HOBI-WAN (Hydrogen Oxidizing Bacteria In Weightlessness As a source of Nutrition), scientists are testing a powdered form of microscopic life…
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Microbes Essential for Human Health Survive Spaceflight: A Breakthrough for Astronaut Well-Being
Breakthrough: Beneficial Bacteria Endures the Harsh Ride to Space Microbes that play a crucial role in human health—such as supporting digestion, immunity, and circulation—have demonstrated surprising resilience to the extreme stresses of spaceflight. In a pioneering experiment, researchers from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) in Australia tested the hardy spores of the bacterium…
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Mars Crews Need Mixed Personalities for Successful Missions
New research argues for diversity in astronaut personalities on Mars missions A new study from the Stevens Institute of Technology proposes that the most effective crews for long-duration Mars missions may not be those composed of a single dominant personality type, but rather teams that mix a range of traits. Using advanced computer simulations, researchers…
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Alcohol, danger, and solidarity: How Mir cosmonauts drank after a near-disaster in space
Introduction: a crisis in orbit On June 25, 1997, the Russian space station Mir faced a life-threatening crisis when an uncrewed Progress M-34 cargo vessel collided with the station during a docking attempt. The impact ruptured the Spektr module’s pressure hull, causing a rapid loss of air and forcing the crew to seal off the…