title: [Prospect of the Advanced Life Support Program Breadboard Project at Kennedy Space Center in USA].
abstract: The Breadboard Project at Kennedy Space Center in NASA of USA was focused on the development of the bioregenerative life support components, crop plants for water, air, and food production and bioreactors for recycling of wastes. The keystone of the Breadboard Project was the Biomass Production Chamber (BPC), which was supported by 15 environmentally controlled chambers and several laboratory facilities holding a total area of 2150 m2. In supporting the Advanced Life Support Program (ALS Program), the Project utilizes these facilities for large-scale testing of components and development of required technologies for human-rated test-beds at Johnson Space Center in NASA, in order to enable a Lunar and a Mars mission finally.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Space Medico-Engineering, Beijing, China.
authors.forename: S S
authors.initials: SS
authors.lastname: Guo
authors.forename: W D
authors.initials: WD
authors.lastname: Ai
mesh_terms: D018533:Biomass; D018504:Ecological Systems, Closed; D004783:Environmental Microbiology; D006801:Humans; D008021:Life Support Systems / Q000295:instrumentation*; D018535:Mars; D016081:Moon; D013026:Space Flight / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000639:trends*; D014481:United States; D018557:United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration / Q000639:trends*; D018505:Waste Management; D014893:Weightlessness