Nov 3rd 2023
Tech Break 7910
TWiS Clip: 100 Astronauts on Starship - Where Are the Toilets?
The Challenge of Scaling Up Life Support on SpaceX Starship
How will Elon Musk keep 100 people alive on future Starship Mars missions? Grant Anderson, the president and CEO of Paragon Space Development Corporation, has been working on these problems and explains the challenges of scaling up from SpaceX's Dragon life support for crews of 4-7 to Musk's visions of 80-100 people on Starship missions.
Tune in to This Week in Space to learn more about the complex challenges required to sustain human life in the harsh extremes of space: https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-space/episodes/86
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