title: Four men in a space station - To say nothing of the cow! The quest for finding respite and work in the ultimate frontier.
abstract: Fed up with life on earth, four scientists attempt to make it to space to live in the International Space Station (ISS) and carry out experiments. The difficulties in getting selected by NASA, the rigourous training to fly and the risks of the journey to life and health are the rate limiting steps in their quest. They propose commercialization of space and also ferrying cows to space for food as well as generation of biogas. The anaerobic environment is particularly suitable for biogas generation and if successful they plan to get NASA to launch space vehicles to Mars using this natural fuel with the ISS as the staging area.
authors.forename: Biji T
authors.initials: BT
authors.lastname: Kurien
authors.forename: Yaser
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Dorri
authors.forename: Anil
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: D'Souza
authors.forename: R Hal
authors.initials: RH
authors.lastname: Scofield
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002417:Cattle; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D012146:Rest / Q000502:physiology*; D013026:Space Flight / Q000193:education / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods*; D018531:Spacecraft / Q000295:instrumentation*; D014937:Work / Q000502:physiology*