The objective of the Food And Revitalization Module (FARM) project was to design a plant growth chamber module to be integrated in a bio-regenerative life support system for a permanent human Moon base. Several trade-offs have been performed in order to evaluate the possible design architectures, cultivation methods, the selection of the crop and the diet composition.Different soil-less culture methods were evaluated and issues related to light intensity, pressure, temperature, CO2 concentration and humidity control were analyzed trading-off between the different needs of the base and of the plants. From these results, different options of diet/crop combinations have been evaluated, starting from a greenhouse able to fulfill almost 100% of all the nutritional needs of the crew, scaling down reaching less than 50% of the needs considering integrations from Earth.


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    Title :

    Food and Revitalization Module (FARM) for Moon Human Exploration


    Additional title:

    Sae Technical Papers


    Contributors:

    Conference:

    International Conference On Environmental Systems ; 2008



    Publication date :

    2008-06-29




    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Print


    Language :

    English




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