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A paper I read recently (Harper 2016 - 10.1089/space.2015.0029) has numbers based on the supplies needed to the ISS.

The gist was, "Without some sort of recycling and/or use of in situ resources, meeting the lunar settlement goal of 100 people would require delivery of over 1 million kilograms of life-support consumables per year."

And then assuming a PLSS life support system you get to to needing about 5500kg of consumables delivered per person per year.

[1] https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/abs/10.1089/space.2015.0029

parent Nexialist 5 years ago

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