ADVISORY/European Space Agency Recycling for Life...on Mars?Lifestyle Editors & Science Writers ADVISORY...for THURSDAY (July 26) NOTE TO EDITORS: Multimedia Assets Available With This Story Include Graphics, Logos, Photos, Text News Releases --(BUSINESS WIRE) Packing for a trip to Mars may seem a long way in the future, but the European Space Agency European Space Agency (ESA), multinational agency dedicated to the promotion, for exclusively peaceful purposes, of cooperation among European states in space research and technology. (ESA 1. (architecture) ESA - Enterprise Systems Architecture. 2. (body) ESA - European Space Agency. ) is already starting to solve the problem of how the first astronauts will fit everything for a 3-year trip into one small spacecraft spacecraft Vehicle designed to operate, with or without a crew, in a controlled flight pattern above Earth's lower atmosphere. Since streamlining is not needed in the high vacuum of this environment, a spacecraft's shape is designed according to its mission (see . The astronauts will not be able to throw anything away, including human waste. ESA has developed a new system called MELISSA (Micro-Ecological Life Support Alternative) to test ways of turning waste into food, oxygen and water by creating an artificial ecosystem that uses micro-organisms to process the waste, to use as fertilizer fertilizer, organic or inorganic material containing one or more of the nutrients—mainly nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium, and other essential elements required for plant growth. to grow plants. You can reach the story directly by going to http://www.newstream.com/cgi-bin/display_story.cgi?3545 This multimedia news story is for free and unrestricted use on your news information site (and for print or broadcast too). Visit http://www.newstream.com to download To receive a file transmitted over a network. In any communications session, "download" means receive, and "upload" means send. The download/upload often implies a big/little scenario, in which data is being downloaded from the "big" server into the "little" user's computer. video, audio, text, graphics, and photos. If you have any questions about the story, or about Newstream.com, please write to us at info@newstream.com. |
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