{"id":44,"date":"2013-11-08T04:39:57","date_gmt":"2013-11-08T04:39:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sustainspace.com\/?p=44"},"modified":"2013-11-08T04:48:49","modified_gmt":"2013-11-08T04:48:49","slug":"esa-closed-loop-life-support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sustainspace.com\/?p=44","title":{"rendered":"ESA Closed Loop Life Support"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_45\" style=\"width: 260px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sustainspace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/newmelissaloop560.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-45\" class=\"size-full wp-image-45  \" alt=\"new melissa loop\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sustainspace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/newmelissaloop560.jpg\" width=\"250\" height=\"237\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sustainspace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/newmelissaloop560.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.sustainspace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/newmelissaloop560-240x227.jpg 240w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-45\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">MELIiSSA loop<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The European Space Agency&#8217;s\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/ecls.esa.int\/ecls\/?p=index\">MELIiSSA<\/a>\u00a0(Micro-Ecological Life Support System Alternative) research program\u00a0&#8220;aims to develop the technology required for a future biological life support system for long term manned space missions.&#8221; In fact, MELISSA claims to go &#8220;further than other recycling systems used on Mir or the International Space Station which purify water and recycle exhaled carbon dioxide&#8221;, by attempting to &#8220;recycle organic waste for food production.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>See\u00a0<a title=\"ESA Closed Loop Life Support\" href=\"http:\/\/pavilionrc.typepad.com\/sustainable_reentry\/2008\/08\/esa-closed-loop.html\" target=\"_blank\">full article<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The European Space Agency&#8217;s\u00a0MELIiSSA\u00a0(Micro-Ecological Life Support System Alternative) research program\u00a0&#8220;aims to develop the technology required for a future biological life support system for long term manned space missions.&#8221; In fact, MELISSA claims to go &#8220;further than other recycling systems used on Mir or the International Space Station which purify water and recycle exhaled carbon dioxide&#8221;, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,9],"tags":[16,17],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sustainspace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sustainspace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sustainspace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sustainspace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sustainspace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.sustainspace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50,"href":"https:\/\/www.sustainspace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44\/revisions\/50"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sustainspace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sustainspace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sustainspace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}