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Completed TRL 1 (started at 2, targeting 2)
The results of this project will help inform advanced life support technology development for exploration missions.
This project will help characterize the types of organisms that are typically vented or leaked from current spacecraft environmental control and life support systems--and provide insight into how to prevent it or mitigate the effects.
Potential applications for this technology encompass all pressurized crew compartments used at exploration destinations--everything from space suits to habitats or pressurized Mars surface rovers.
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