Space Forum / Space Station / August 2008

So you get the station occupants to drink fresh milk.

Of course, that entails having cows on board, a large greenhouse where
grass can grow to feed the cows and souped up CO2 (and other odour)
remover :-)

And interestingly, you would need some fairly high tech way to handle
cow waste in 0 G. Cows aren't going to sit on the tiny russian toilet.
Perhaps some powerful fans that would attract cow waste to some filter
that would prevent the sh.t from hitting the fan.

You'd then probably want to have some means to extract the O2 from the
methane produced when the manure decomposes.

We are still some ways from being able to support a "colony" in space.

Hmm, well how come then that  there are a lot of bed rest studies to  mimic
space flight. I agree that bone mass must bee looked at too, but from the
reports, it seems that muscles are affected as well.
Brian