Genetic engineering could solve many problems of a long-term space flight
What if we would connect our genome the DNA, what makes our skin cells form chlorophyll? That thing would make possible that the human can live in the atmosphere, where is very little oxygen, which makes the spacecraft safer against fire. Fire is the problem in every type of closed space, and if the fire starts in spacecraft the situation would be more catastrophic, than anywhere on the ground.
If the human can separate oxygen from carbon dioxide, that thing makes possible that there would be no need for the free oxygen in the air. In this case, it is possible to use carbon-dioxide gas in the atmosphere of the spacecraft, and that thing denies the fire in that spacecraft. This kind of solution doesn't necessarily need genetic manipulation, and there is a possibility that in the airways, what are deliver air to lungs will equip with the surgically implanted respirator, which will use the carbon filter for separating the oxygen from the air.
In the Mars-flight the craft would be equipped with "Slender-man" robots, which can take the injured crew member in the chamber and walk to the base.
But when we are thinking about skin, what allows the photosynthesis, that thing means that the organism doesn't need C-vitamin at all. The only thing that this thing requires is nutrient and light. The internal layer of space suits can be covered by using light-diodes, which would make the cells to begin the photosynthesis. But this thing is only one of the visions, what the colonization of Mars and other planets would require.
Food production would happen in that kind of place by using advanced biotechnology. There could be green-alga tanks, where the production of oxygen is connected with food production. If we are thinking about the possibility of accidents in that kind of system, where the nutrient can be created in the spacesuits, that is equipped with the system, what can recycle food this kind of thing is the ultimate tool.
That means that in the case of accidents the life support system of the spacesuit can start to inject that alga in the veins for keeping a person alive until the rescue craft will come from the Earth. In the case that the accident will happen at the surface of the planet, the equipment that can be used in this case will be a robot, what takes the person in it, and then walk to base or rescue capsule.
The green alga can also be used as food, and there is a possibility that the crews of those places would also eat meat. That meat would also be created by using the cell cultures, where the muscle cells of the animals would grow to slices of beef, and that kind of food production is an ecological and effective way to make meat also on the Earth.
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