The Potential Anaerobic Cultivation of Microbial Biomass for Astronaut Nutrition During Long-Term Space Flight.

Hillary H Smith, Gregory M Wong, Sydney N Assalita, Zhidan Zhang, Christopher H House

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Article in Life (Basel, Switzerland), 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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5 authors.

Hillary H SmithDepartment of Geosciences, The Pennsylvania State University, 220 Deike Building, State College, PA 16802, USA.ORCID 0009-0003-8997-5321

Gregory M WongDepartment of Geosciences, The Pennsylvania State University, 220 Deike Building, State College, PA 16802, USA.

Sydney N AssalitaDepartment of Geosciences, The Pennsylvania State University, 220 Deike Building, State College, PA 16802, USA.

Zhidan ZhangDepartment of Geosciences, The Pennsylvania State University, 220 Deike Building, State College, PA 16802, USA.

Christopher H HouseDepartment of Geosciences, The Pennsylvania State University, 220 Deike Building, State College, PA 16802, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-4926-4985

Funding

NASA 09-STECKLER09-0022NASA 80NSSC18K1140NASA 80NSSC20M0097U.S. National Science Foundation EF-1724099

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Long-term crewed space missions will have significant constraints on the weight and volume of supplies. The food needed and the management of the waste produced present a challenge, demanding technologies that effectively recycle nutrients. Using microbiological processes may be a way to meet this challenge. Here, we suggest that byproducts of anaerobic wastewater digestion (organic acids, H

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anaerobic growthcontrolled ecological life-support system (CELSS)fermentationlipidsproteinssingle-cell protein

Identifiers

PMID42795334

DOI10.3390/life16091469

PMCPMC13608552

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