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Towards a Mars Base: Critical Steps for Life Support on the Moon and Beyond
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In providing crew life support for future exploration missions, overall exploration objectives will drive the life support solutions selected. Crew size, mission tasking, and exploration strategy will determine the performance required from life support systems. Human performance requirements, for example, may be offset by the availability of robotic assistance. Once established, exploration requirements for life support will be weighed against the financial and technical risks of developing new technologies and systems. Other considerations will include the demands that a particular life support strategy will make on planetary surface site selection, and the availability of precursor mission data to support EVA and in situ resource recovery planning. As space exploration progresses, the diversity of life support solutions that are implemented is bound to increase.
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Rummel, J., "Towards a Mars Base: Critical Steps for Life Support on the Moon and Beyond," SAE Technical Paper 921288, 1992, https://doi.org/10.4271/921288.Also In
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