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It will be a first for Africa: One innovative step by the North-West University and one giant leap by the continent. The NWU’s Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences is set to launch the research area
“Humans will be back on the moon in a few years, but colonisation of the moon and Mars is still some time away. That is why we need research to assist in the process. In situ production of fibre, carbohydrates, fats, protein, nutrients and oxygen will be key for sustained living in space under confined, constrained and extreme conditions. This means organisms must be sustained at productive rates, which implies functional ecosystems based on regolith.
The rise in spaceflight and space exploration by national , international and commercial entities has increased the need for space biology research, and groundbreaking research by the NWU has already shown that earthworms are able to grow normally and reproduce relatively normally at up to six times earth’s gravity. Now it is time to see how they function under microgravity conditions.
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