宇宙居住環境中の微生物

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Three space agencies, JAXA, ESA and NASA, have announced space exploration and utilization plans, and space habitation has become more realistic. After full-scale space habitation is started, environments adequate for human needs must be created and maintained. Comfortable environments for people, however, inevitably provide microorganisms’ favorite conditions for growth and survival. The Russian manned space station “Mir” has experienced fungal damages, and also many researchers demonstrated that bacteria changed their characters, such as pathogenicity, growth rate and resistance to high salt and acidic condition, under microgravity conditions. Investigation of microorganisms in space stations is required to assure not only health but also hardware reliability. In this review, we summarized published researches on microorganisms in space habitation environments.
生態工学会の論文
2007-07-31