How humans might survive the long voyage to Mars and beyond
In short: Dr Kevin Fong explores the immense challenges of sustaining life during deep space travel. This lecture examines how astronauts will manage food supplies and life support systems during multi-year journeys across the cosmos.
In this finale of the 2015 Christmas Lectures, Dr Kevin Fong investigates the logistics of long-duration spaceflight. He addresses the critical question of how life can be artificially sustained when traveling millions of kilometres to the Red Planet. The discussion covers the necessity of managing food supplies for three years or more and the complex systems required to keep astronauts alive during their journey into the next frontier of space exploration.
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