Chinese Volunteers Start Year long Experiment Inside Lunar Palace Lab

Опубликовано: 10 мая 2017 г. A yearlong research mission at the Lunar Palace 1 laboratory, China s first bioregenerative life support system, was launched on Monday in Beijing. Dubbed as The Lunar Palace 365 Project, the research mission involved eight postgraduate students from Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics (BUAA) who will begin a multicrew longduration project inside the 160squaremeter, 500cubicmeter Lunar Palace 1 capsule for the next 365 days. During the yearlong experiment, the volunteers will be living and working inside the fully closed laboratory where they can simulate a longduration, selfcontained mission with no outside inputs. The project is aimed at laying the groundwork for China s lunar surface missions in the future. Lunar Palace 1, developed by researchers at BUAA, is short for the Integrative Experimental Facility for Permanent Astrobase Lifesupport Artificial Closed Ecosystem (PALACE) Research. It is the