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NASA NTRS2020

Culture-Based Environmental Microbiology Monitoring of Crop-Based Space Food Systems (veggie Monitoring)

Crewmembers live and work in a closed environment that is monitored to ensure their health and safety. Quarterly monitoring of the microorganisms in the International Space Station (ISS) environment supports crew safety and contributes to a large set of microbial concentration and diversity data from air, surfaces and water samples. This study leverages quarterly operational Environmental Health System (EHS) sampling by collecting additional microbial samples from the surface of the station’s Veggie plant production system. Longer exploration missions may require spaceflight-based systems for growth of plants, and this investigation is expected to provide additional data to help establish requirements to protect these systems, plants, and crew, mitigating adverse microbial exposure.

Hamilton, Tanner↗
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Establishing Recommendations for the Development of Space Suit Integrated Food Systems and the Delivery of Nutrition Before, During, and After Lunar EVA

Extravehicular activity (EVA) operations are complex and challenging, and Artemis missions will include a higher tempo and frequency of EVAs than any previous space program. For this reason, surface EVAs greater than 4 h require additional nutrition support. The ability to provide this additional nutritional support is limited on Artemis missions given crew schedules and the current inability to provide nutrition to astronauts while suited. This project seeks to help define means for provision of nutritional support to Artemis astronauts during lunar EVAs.

E L Dillon↗
NASA NTRS2022

2022 Annual Report: Culture-Based Environmental Microbiology Monitoring of Crop-based Space Food Systems (Veggie Monitoring)

Crewmembers live and work in a closed environment that is monitored to ensure their health and safety. Quarterly monitoring of the microorganisms in the International Space Station (ISS) environment supports crew safety and contributes to a large set of environmental microbial data from the air, surface, and water samples that are collected. This study leverages quarterly operational Environmental Health System (EHS) sampling by collecting additional microbial samples from the surface of the station’s Veggie plant production system. Longer exploration missions may require spaceflight-based systems for growth of plants, and this investigation is expected to provide additional data to help establish requirements to protect these systems, plants, and crew, mitigating adverse microbial exposure.

Tanner Hamilton↗
NASA NTRSDate not supplied

Space Crop Production and Exploration Food Systems

A virtual presentation to the University of North Dakota (UND) Space Studies Colloquium providing both an historical overview as well as NASA's current and future plans for crop production in support of exploration.

Crops↗