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How the ISS Provides Astronauts Breathable Oxygen to Keep Them Alive – Interesting Engineering
Living on the International Space Station relies entirely on the space stations’ ability to create the most essential part of human life: breathable air.
Since 2000, there’s been at least one human living and breathing outside of the earth’s lower atmosphere orbiting aboard the International Space Station (ISS).
The space station, is equipped with everything that astronauts and cosmonauts need for life: food, water, and air. The food is delivered regularly on resupply missions. However, when it comes to water and air, the space station is completely self-sufficient.
While we have the luxury of photosynthesizing plants that supply us oxygen, th…
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