{"id":602789,"date":"2019-04-05T02:58:00","date_gmt":"2019-04-05T06:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=0a6f9880dc06205da80c6b5639a77e41"},"modified":"2019-04-05T02:58:00","modified_gmt":"2019-04-05T06:58:00","slug":"a-decade-long-quest-to-build-an-ecosystem-in-a-room-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=602789","title":{"rendered":"A decade-long quest to build an ecosystem in a room"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/images\/2009\/06\/a_view_inside_the_melissa_pilot_plant_at_the_university_autonoma_of_barcelona\/9241328-6-eng-GB\/A_view_inside_the_MELiSSA_pilot_plant_at_the_University_Autonoma_of_Barcelona_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nYesterday the MELiSSA pilot plant at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uab.cat\/web\/i-d-i\/melissa-1295852698572.html\">University of Barcelona<\/a> celebrated 10 years spent demonstrating the ideal technologies to recycle waste from space missions into air, water and food.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nAs astronauts explore farther into our Solar System, there will be a need to reduce the reliance on supplies brought from Earth. ESA is working with partners to create a contained system that will eventually and continuously convert carbon dioxide, urine and organic matter into fresh air, water and food \u2013 almost indefinitely. This system is known as MELiSSA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/images\/2009\/06\/a_view_inside_the_melissa_pilot_plant_at_the_university_autonoma_of_barcelona\/9241328-6-eng-GB\/A_view_inside_the_MELiSSA_pilot_plant_at_the_University_Autonoma_of_Barcelona_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\"><\/p>\n<p>\nYesterday the MELiSSA pilot plant at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uab.cat\/web\/i-d-i\/melissa-1295852698572.html\">University of Barcelona<\/a> celebrated 10 years spent demonstrating the ideal technologies to recycle waste from space missions into air, water and food.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nAs astronauts explore farther into our Solar System, there will be a need to reduce the reliance on supplies brought from Earth. ESA is working with partners to create a contained system that will eventually and continuously convert carbon dioxide, urine and organic matter into fresh air, water and food &ndash; almost indefinitely. This system is known as MELiSSA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":53,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-602789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ESA"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/53"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=602789"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602789\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":609516,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602789\/revisions\/609516"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=602789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=602789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=602789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}