{"id":110073,"date":"2026-06-09T16:47:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T21:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.und.edu\/uletter\/?p=110073"},"modified":"2026-06-09T16:47:00","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T21:47:00","slug":"at-und-a-nasa-trailer-helping-scientists-learn-how-to-live-on-other-worlds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.und.edu\/uletter\/2026\/06\/at-und-a-nasa-trailer-helping-scientists-learn-how-to-live-on-other-worlds\/","title":{"rendered":"At UND, a NASA trailer helping scientists learn how to live on other worlds"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_110074\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-110074\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-110074\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.und.edu\/uletter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/260513-NASA-BLiSS-1-web.jpg\" alt=\"Members of UND research team pose near NASA capsule with inflatable habitat and new wastewater treatment unit behind\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.und.edu\/uletter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/260513-NASA-BLiSS-1-web.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.und.edu\/uletter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/260513-NASA-BLiSS-1-web-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.und.edu\/uletter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/260513-NASA-BLiSS-1-web-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blogs.und.edu\/uletter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/260513-NASA-BLiSS-1-web-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-110074\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The research team carrying out NASA\u2019s Divergent Deployable Wastewater Treatment Facility pose in front of the space capsule, a landmark space relic located near UND\u2019s Inflatable Lunar-Mars Analog Habitat (behind capsule at right). The NASA treatment facility (behind capsule at left) is designed to turn crew wastewater into useful resources, which future explorers will need every day. Photo by Paige Prekker\/UND College of Engineering &amp; Mines.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A mobile wastewater treatment system built at NASA\u2019s Kennedy Space Center in Florida that can help prepare for long-duration missions on the Moon and Mars arrived recently at UND. Graduate students at the university will test the technology under conditions designed to closely mimic the challenges of operating on another planetary surface.<\/p>\n<p>The Divergent Deployable Wastewater Treatment Facility is designed to turn crew wastewater into useful resources, which future explorers will need every day. At UND, teams will integrate this new wastewater system with the university\u2019s Integrated Lunar\/Martian Analog Habitat. Student operators and NASA researchers will study how the facility performs when connected to a habitat-like environment and exposed to the kinds of operational limits crews could face on another planet.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNASA\u2019s Artemis program is laying the groundwork for a sustained human presence on the Moon, where habitats will need to operate far from the steady resupply chain that supports astronauts in partial gravity,\u201d said Luke Roberson, surface water systems lead within the Mars Campaign Office at NASA Kennedy. \u201cTo solve that challenge, we are developing the future of sustainable lunar surface systems to process wastewater into nutrient feedstocks for plants and biomanufacturing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.und.edu\/und-today\/2026\/06\/und-begins-testing-nasa-wastewater-system-for-future-moon-mars-missions\/\"><strong>Read the full story at UND Today<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Project hopes to show how astronaut waste could help grow food on the Moon and Mars.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":110074,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[523],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-spotlight"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.0 - 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