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Habitation in Space

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Extending human activities to outer space has been a major target of space engineering from its inception. We have long dreamed of space flight, been curious about the origin of the universe, our solar system, and life on Earth (Tsiolkovsky in Exploration of world space with rockets. Kaluga Press, Russia). Even with recent discoveries of many extra-solar planets, Earth remains a uniquely habitable planet.

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    Together with C4 carbon fixation and Crassulacean acid metabolism, also known as CAM photosynthesis, C3 carbon fixation is a metabolic pathway for photosynthesis, converings carbon dioxide and ribulose bisphosphate (RuBP, a 5-carbon sugar) into 3-phosphoglycerate.

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  1. Institute of Space and Astronautical Science (ISAS), Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) (Emeritus), Tokyo, Japan

    Masamichi Yamashita

  2. John F. Kennedy Space Center, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), Florida, USA

    Raymond M. Wheeler

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  2. Polytechnic University Bucuresti Candida Oancea Inst., Bucuresti, Romania

    Viorel Badescu

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Yamashita, M., Wheeler, R.M. (2014). Habitation in Space. In: Macdonald, M., Badescu, V. (eds) The International Handbook of Space Technology. Springer Praxis Books(). Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-41101-4_17

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