Main characteristics of biological components of developing life support system observed during the experiments aboard orbital complex MIR

Agriculture for Space: People and Places Paving the Way

“…Gitelson, personal communication). Over a period of about This led to the development of the "Svet" plant chamber that was used on the Mir Space Station to study wheat and other plants through whole production cycles (Bingham et al, 1996;Levinskikh et al, 2000;Sytchev et al, 2001;Salisbury et al, 2003). The Svet chamber principles were then used to develop the smaller "Lada" plant chamber for IMBP to fly on the ISS .…”

Wheeler Raymond Agriculture for Space: People and Countries Paving the Way

“…This led to the development of the "Svet" plant chamber that was used on the Mir Space Station to study wheat and other plants through whole production cycles (Bingham et al, 1996;Sytchev et al, 2001;Salisbury et al, 2003) [19, 107, 171, 157]. The Svet chamber principles were then used to develop the smaller "Lada" plant chamber for IMBP to ly on the ISS (Bingham et al, 2003) [21].…”

“…Most of these chambers were used for gravitational research with plants, but all had capabilities for growing small amounts of food. Some studies were speci ically focused on space agriculture, including the NASA collaborative testing with the Russians for growing wheat in the Svet chamber on Mir (Bingham et al, 1996;Sytchev et al, 2001;Salisbury et al, 2003) [19, 107, 171, 157], the successful production of potato tubers using leaf cuttings in ASC on the Space Shuttle Cook et al, 1998) [42, 38], and the growth of wheat in BPS to measure plant photosynthesis on the ISS [126,168]. Expanded discussions of the Veggie plant unit for food production and crop research on the ISS are reviewed by [118] in this issue.…”

The Effect of Gravity Variation on the Growth of Okra Root

“…Through CO2 absorption and O2 emission, water purification through transpiration, waste product recycling via mineral nutrition, and as a food source, plants play a key role in CRLSS (Paradiso et al, 2014, Wheeler et al, 2001, Ferl et al, 1993. On the earth, plants are known to adapt to extreme environments, and space experiment have demonstrated that plants are able to grow and reproduce in microgravity (Ivanova et al, 1993, Link et al, 2003, Musgrave et al, 1997, Sychev et al, 2007, Sychev et al, 2008. The first plant materials were materials brought into space in 1960, when seeds of wheat, pea, maize, and onion were flown on board of sputnik 4 (Stankovic, 2000).…”