Christophe Lasseur: Algae in space | Luka Paltana Podcast

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Sustain Circularity Podcast

Luka Paltana

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4 days ago

I get up in the morning to work with brilliant, passionate, and impatient people primarily motivated by improving life and making the world a more fulfilling and sustainable place. I am MSc student @ the best agriculture university in the world Wageningen University & Research. In this podcast I talk with scientist and people around me, where we explore ongoing topics for building a Biobased Economy.

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Christophe Lasseur: Algae in space | Luka Paltana Podcast

Sustain Circularity Podcast

46 minutes 54 seconds

4 years ago

Christophe Lasseur: Algae in space | Luka Paltana Podcast

This time I talk with Christophe Lasseur, He works in European Space Agency (ESA) as an Environmental Control and Life Support System R&D coordinator & Head of the MELiSSA project, which been running for the past 30 years. I am extremely impressed by the work that has been done, I am even happier to share this talk with you.

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OUTLINE:

00:00 - Introduction
00:41 - Childhood
3:16 - Engineering for space systems
6:16 - Why algae in space?
14:44 - How algae are researched in space?
18:10 - Growth in Mars and space
21:10 - Algae as astronauts nutrition
25:21 - Knowledge management
27:11 - COVID-19 and impact on ESA
29:32 - Melissa project
33:10 - Interdisciplinarity of ESA
33:50 - Why do we need to go to space?
35:20 - When we will fly to space commercially?
36:52 - USA vs EU vs rest of the world
40:40 - Elon Musk meme and aliens
42:10 - Government and aliens
43:56 - Space startups
45:09 - Career at ESA

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