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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. PODCAST ON ALL PLATFORMS: Apple Podcast, Google Podcast, Spotify, Overcast, Pocket Casts, Castro, Breaker, Castbox, Radio Public Follow the link: https://plinkhq.com/i/1540689102 Anchor: https://anchor.fm/lukapaltana 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 CONNECT: LinkedIn - http://linkedin.com/in/paltanavicius/Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/lukas.paltanavicius/
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