Latest News

Press Articles

"Qu'est-ce qu'on mange?"...sur Mars Depeche AFP, June 17th 2005.

"Petits plats dans l espace" National Geographic France, February 2005.

"Gnocchis a la Spiruline" Liberation, January 8th 2005.

"Out-of-this-world French Cuisine" Financial Times, October 22nd 2004.

Main events

MELiSSA Yearly Meeting Public Day
12 May 2006, ESA/ESTEC.

36th Scientific Assembly of the Committee on Space Research (COSPAR)
16 - 23 July 2006, Beijing, China.

4th International Workshop on Space Microbiology
12-16 September 2006, Kaluga, Russian federation.

Publications for Education

• La Culture de Spirulina en Photobioreacteur (French, PDF)
• Les Écosystèmes Clos Artificiels: Maintien en Vie du Cosmonaute dans l’Espace (French, PDF)
• Un Exemple d’Écosystème Artificiel Réduit aux Échanges Gazeux : Le Projet BIORAT (French, PDF)

Pictures

Visit to BIOS Facility
Krasnoyarsk
August 2001
Group Photo

Visit to CEEF Facility
Japan
September 2001
Group Photo

Opening of New Facility
University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada
15 May 2001
Group photo

International Visit of the MELISSA Pilot Plant
Barcelona, Spain
July 7-8, 2000
Group photo

Project Manager: Christophe Lasseur (D/TEC-MCT)