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Food and Revitalization Module (FARM) for Moon Human Exploration
Technical Paper
2008-01-2014
ISSN: 0148-7191, e-ISSN: 2688-3627
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The objective of the Food And Revitalization Module (FARM) project was to design a plant growth chamber module to be integrated in a bio-regenerative life support system for a permanent human Moon base. Several trade-offs have been performed in order to evaluate the possible design architectures, cultivation methods, the selection of the crop and the diet composition.
Different soil-less culture methods were evaluated and issues related to light intensity, pressure, temperature, CO2 concentration and humidity control were analyzed trading-off between the different needs of the base and of the plants. From these results, different options of diet/crop combinations have been evaluated, starting from a greenhouse able to fulfill almost 100% of all the nutritional needs of the crew, scaling down reaching less than 50% of the needs considering integrations from Earth.
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Finetto, C., Rapisarda, A., Renzoni, D., Sabbagh, A. et al., "Food and Revitalization Module (FARM) for Moon Human Exploration," SAE Technical Paper 2008-01-2014, 2008, https://doi.org/10.4271/2008-01-2014.Also In
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