BBC2017年5月12日报道我校“月宫365计划”：
China takes aim at the Moon with long-term cabin trial
Science students have moved into a cabin to simulate life in a lunar-like environment for up to 200 days.
The goal is to prepare for a long-term space mission with no input from the outside world.
China has poured huge funding into its space programme to rival that of the US and Russia.
Four postgraduate students from the astronautics university of Beihang on Wednesday moved into the cabin, ambitiously called the Yuegong-1, or Lunar Palace in English.
They will stay in the cabin for 60 days, followed by another group who will stay for 200 days. The first four will then return for yet another 105 days.
Isolated, self-contained
According to state news agency Xinhua, one of the main elements of the experiment is to explore is how a space mission could be entirely self-contained over a long period of time.
Human waste will undergo a bio-fermentation process, and crops and vegetables are to be grown with the help of food and waste by-products.
The model Moon station has two plant cultivation modules and a living cabin housing four bed cubicles, one common room, a bathroom, a waste treatment room and a room for raising animals.
While the experiments aboard the Lunar Palace are aimed at preparing lunar explorers for long stays on the moon, China does not plan to land its first astronauts there for at least another 10 years.
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