From space back to Earth: supporting sustainable development with spaceflight technologies

Abstract For the past decades spaceflight has been a driver for technology development in various fields, e.g. generation of electrical power, and computers. Human spaceflight missions, require resources typically scarce (e.g. oxygen) and are usually transferred along with the crew to the respective...

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Main Authors: Volker Maiwald, Daniel Schubert, Dominik Quantius, Paul Zabel
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2021-02-01
Series:Sustainable Earth
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1186/s42055-021-00042-9