CosmicQuest
Living in Space

Plants for your space station
You need to be self-sufficient in: Food
Instrument panel

! astronaut: 10 square me of plantsGood answer! It takes ten square meters of plants to recycle just one astronaut's air. That would fill up a small bedroom!

So a crew of three astronauts would need thirty square meters of plants—that's enough plants to fill a third of the Space Shuttle's cargo bay! Your space station will have to be very big to hold all these plants.

And that's not all you'll need room for. You also need to produce your own food. How will you do that?

Hydroponic garden
Hydroponic garden		 Replicator
Replicator

Cow
Raise livestock

 

 

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