Human Space Habitat Design and Sustainability
- Submission status
- Open
npj Microgravity is an international, peer-reviewed journal publishing premier research that enables space exploration, and provides novel insight into life, engineering and physical sciences to benefit Earth-based research. See our journal impact here. We are currently seeking submissions for a multidisciplinary Collection focusing on human space habitat design and sustainability from the biological, physical and engineering perspectives, in particular but not limited to the subject areas listed below.
This Call for Papers welcomes submissions focused on low earth orbit (LEO) or deep space exploration missions (e.g., lunar and Mars missions).
- Plants and food systems
- Fluid systems Life support systems, including air and water purification
- Synthetic biology and in situ resource utilization
- Microbial impact on human, plant and life support systems
- Approaches for microbial and toxicological control
- Habitat design including behavioral considerations and human interface with onboard systems
- Mitigating impact of spaceflight environment on human physiology
- Animal studies
Editors
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Brian Motil
Deputy Editor, npj Microgravity, previously at NASA Glenn Research Center
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Mark Ott
Deputy Editor, npj Microgravity, NASA Johnson Space Center
About the Editors
Brian Motil, PhD: As Chief of Thermal Systems and Transport Processes Branch at NASA Glenn Research Center, OH, USA, Dr. Motil's research focused on fluid physics in the microgravity environment. Prior to this he served as the discipline lead for microgravity fluid physics at NASA Glenn where he oversaw the design, development and implementation of NASA funded research in fluid and thermal transport, for platforms such as drop towers, parabolic flight aircraft, sounding rockets and the ISS. Brian oversees the journal's content in microgravity fluid physics.
Mark Ott, PhD: At the NASA Johnson Space Center (USA), Mark oversees microbial monitoring of mission operations and has research expertise in the areas of microbial ecology of spacecraft, human and microbial responses to spaceflight and the development of advanced tissue culture models to investigate infectious disease.
