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project overseen by the Kennedy Advanced Life Support Research group at NASA's Kennedy Space Center, Florida.
These experiments aim to create closed-loop systems that can support astronaut health and longevity by mimicking biological systems here on Earth. They are also a key component to future mission architectures, where the need for self-sufficiency is a must and"sustainability" is emphasized. Anxiety was expressed in a growing body of academic literature that 'if we continue our present practices we will face a steady deterioration of the conditions under which we live' and about the real danger that humankind 'may destroy the ability of the earth to support life.'"
"As such, when you're thinking about variance, and you're thinking about calculating a resilience, which is a long-term factor of sustainability . If you don't take into account the fact that those factors might be varying, you might appear to have a system that isn't sustainable, but really is, because it's just varying naturally."
They also acknowledge that the only way to achieve such a system is to ensure that it is completely independent of Earth supply chains because such supply chains are inherently unsustainable. This is fitting since the goal of a BLSS is to ensure that humans can live in environments where resupply missions are irregular.
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