Preparing for the crewed Mars journey: microbiota dynamics in the confined Mars500 habitat during simulated Mars flight and landing

Petra Schwendner; Alexander Mahnert; Kaisa Koskinen; Christine Moissl-Eichinger; Simon Barczyk; Reinhard Wirth; Gabriele Berg; Petra Rettberg

doi:https://doi.org/10.1186/s40168-017-0345-8

Preparing for the crewed Mars journey: microbiota dynamics in the confined Mars500 habitat during simulated Mars flight and landing

Petra Schwendner, Alexander Mahnert, Kaisa Koskinen, Christine Moissl-Eichinger, Simon Barczyk, Reinhard Wirth, Gabriele Berg, Petra Rettberg

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

Abstract

The Mars500 project was conceived as the first full duration simulation of a crewed return flight to Mars. For 520 days, six crew members lived confined in a specifically designed spacecraft mock-up. The herein described “MIcrobial ecology of Confined Habitats and humAn health” (MICHA) experiment was implemented to acquire comprehensive microbiota data from this unique, confined manned habitat, to retrieve important information on the occurring microbiota dynamics, the microbial load and diversity in the air and on various surfaces.

In total, 360 samples from 20 (9 air, 11 surface) locations were taken at 18 time-points and processed by extensive cultivation, PhyloChip and next generation sequencing (NGS) of 16S rRNA gene amplicons.

Original language	English
Journal	BMC Microbiology
Volume	2017
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1186/s40168-017-0345-8
Publication status	Published - 4 Oct 2017

UN SDGs

This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

Access to Document

https://doi.org/10.1186/s40168-017-0345-8

Cite this

@article{d2ae29576fb24d18b05b9c3ec14a1155,

title = "Preparing for the crewed Mars journey: microbiota dynamics in the confined Mars500 habitat during simulated Mars flight and landing",

abstract = "The Mars500 project was conceived as the first full duration simulation of a crewed return flight to Mars. For 520 days, six crew members lived confined in a specifically designed spacecraft mock-up. The herein described “MIcrobial ecology of Confined Habitats and humAn health” (MICHA) experiment was implemented to acquire comprehensive microbiota data from this unique, confined manned habitat, to retrieve important information on the occurring microbiota dynamics, the microbial load and diversity in the air and on various surfaces.In total, 360 samples from 20 (9 air, 11 surface) locations were taken at 18 time-points and processed by extensive cultivation, PhyloChip and next generation sequencing (NGS) of 16S rRNA gene amplicons.",

author = "Petra Schwendner and Alexander Mahnert and Kaisa Koskinen and Christine Moissl-Eichinger and Simon Barczyk and Reinhard Wirth and Gabriele Berg and Petra Rettberg",

year = "2017",

month = oct,

day = "4",

doi = "https://doi.org/10.1186/s40168-017-0345-8",

language = "English",

volume = "2017",

journal = "BMC Microbiology",

issn = "1471-2180",

publisher = "BioMed Central",

}

TY - JOUR

T1 - Preparing for the crewed Mars journey: microbiota dynamics in the confined Mars500 habitat during simulated Mars flight and landing

AU - Schwendner, Petra

AU - Mahnert, Alexander

AU - Koskinen, Kaisa

AU - Moissl-Eichinger, Christine

AU - Barczyk, Simon

AU - Wirth, Reinhard

AU - Berg, Gabriele

AU - Rettberg, Petra

PY - 2017/10/4

Y1 - 2017/10/4

N2 - The Mars500 project was conceived as the first full duration simulation of a crewed return flight to Mars. For 520 days, six crew members lived confined in a specifically designed spacecraft mock-up. The herein described “MIcrobial ecology of Confined Habitats and humAn health” (MICHA) experiment was implemented to acquire comprehensive microbiota data from this unique, confined manned habitat, to retrieve important information on the occurring microbiota dynamics, the microbial load and diversity in the air and on various surfaces.In total, 360 samples from 20 (9 air, 11 surface) locations were taken at 18 time-points and processed by extensive cultivation, PhyloChip and next generation sequencing (NGS) of 16S rRNA gene amplicons.

AB - The Mars500 project was conceived as the first full duration simulation of a crewed return flight to Mars. For 520 days, six crew members lived confined in a specifically designed spacecraft mock-up. The herein described “MIcrobial ecology of Confined Habitats and humAn health” (MICHA) experiment was implemented to acquire comprehensive microbiota data from this unique, confined manned habitat, to retrieve important information on the occurring microbiota dynamics, the microbial load and diversity in the air and on various surfaces.In total, 360 samples from 20 (9 air, 11 surface) locations were taken at 18 time-points and processed by extensive cultivation, PhyloChip and next generation sequencing (NGS) of 16S rRNA gene amplicons.

U2 - https://doi.org/10.1186/s40168-017-0345-8

DO - https://doi.org/10.1186/s40168-017-0345-8

M3 - Article

SN - 1471-2180

VL - 2017

JO - BMC Microbiology

JF - BMC Microbiology

ER -

Preparing for the crewed Mars journey: microbiota dynamics in the confined Mars500 habitat during simulated Mars flight and landing

Abstract

UN SDGs

Access to Document

Fingerprint

Cite this