Recent advances in technologies required for a "Salad Machine"

Advances in Space Research

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 263-269

  Kliss, M ^a   Heyenga, A G ^a   Hoehn, A ^b   Stodieck, L S ^b  

^a NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR CONDITIONING; ARTICLE; CULTURE MEDIUM; FLIGHT EXPERIMENT; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HUMIDITY; HYDROPONICS; ILLUMINATION; INSTRUMENTATION; MANNED; METHODOLOGY; MICROCLIMATE; PLANT; SHORT DURATION; SPACE FLIGHT; STS SHUTTLE PROJECT; TEMPERATURE; VEGETABLE; WATER SUPPLY; WEIGHTLESSNESS;

FLIGHT EXPERIMENT; MANNED; SHORT DURATION; STS SHUTTLE PROJECT;

AIR CONDITIONING; CULTURE MEDIA; ECOLOGICAL SYSTEMS, CLOSED; HUMIDITY; HYDROPONICS; LIFE SUPPORT SYSTEMS; LIGHTING; PLANTS, EDIBLE; SPACE FLIGHT; TEMPERATURE; VEGETABLES; WATER SUPPLY; WEIGHTLESSNESS;

EID: 0033655232     PISSN: 02731177     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0273-1177(99)00570-0     Document Type: Article

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