Baseline environmental testing of candidate salad crops with horticultural approaches and constraints typical of spaceflight

SAE Technical Papers

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages

  Goins, Gregory D ^a   Yorio, Neil C ^a   Stutte, Gary W ^a   Wheeler, Raymond M ^b   Sager, John C ^b  

^a DYNAMAC CORPORATION   (United States)

^b NASA Biological Sciences Office   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CROPS; CULTIVATION; EARTH (PLANET); ENVIRONMENTAL TESTING; LIFE SUPPORT SYSTEMS (SPACECRAFT); ORBITS; PLANTS (BOTANY); SPACE PLATFORMS; SPACE STATIONS;

ADVANCED LIFE SUPPORTS; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; EXPERIMENTAL PROTOCOLS; INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATIONS; KENNEDY SPACE CENTERS; MISSION CONSTRAINTS; RESPONSE PARAMETERS; SPACE ENVIRONMENT;

ENVIRONMENTAL CHAMBERS;

EID: 85072428948     PISSN: 01487191     EISSN: 26883627     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4271/2003-01-2481     Document Type: Conference Paper

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