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Preparations for the Chinese lunar mission

13.05.2017

Chinese students will live in a laboratory simulating lunar conditions for nearly 200 days as Beijing prepares to land taikonauts on the moon.

Four graduate students from Beijing's Beihang University entered the 160-square-meter booth - dubbed Yuegong-1, or "Moon Palace" - on Wednesday, the Xinhua news agency reported.

These volunteers will live in a closed laboratory simulating a long-term, self-contained space mission with little to no communication with the outside world, Xinhua said.

Human waste will be processed through a bio-fermentation process, and cereals and vegetables will be grown in soils fertilized with food and other waste.

This experimental chamber demonstrates "the world's most advanced closed-loop life-support technology," China Central Television reported.

China does not plan to land its taikonauts on the surface of the Moon for at least another ten years, but within the framework of this project it is planned to prepare people for long-term missions on the surface of our planet's natural satellite.

Two men and two women entered the lab on Wednesday, and they will stay there for at least 60 days. Then they will be replaced by another group, which will stay in the chamber for 200 days, after which the first group will return again to spend another 105 days in the laboratory.

The Moon Palace is the world's third bio-regenerative life support base and the first such base built in China.

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