00:00five four three two one ignition engines full power and lift off go falcon go bandwagon three
00:12stage one propulsion is nominal vehicles pitching downrange
00:30uh so this project is about how we can produce the food we need if we want to travel in space
00:56if we want to colonize all the planets uh it's really difficult to to bring everything we need
01:03from earth just think that an astronaut consumes between half a kilo and 1.5 kilograms of food per
01:10day and every kilogram we ship to space can be 20 000 uh use dollars so imagine every meal can be
01:17something like 10 000 dollars so what what if we just make the food we need in space
01:24and instead of bringing it from earth
01:39so the solution is using microbes so microorganisms such as bacteria or yeast that we are currently
01:44using on on earth to make some of these products already so we can do microbial foods we can produce
01:50ingredients like vitamins that are required for human health we can make bioplastic we can make
01:56pharmaceuticals so if we bring a tiny little cell out in space that cells can then grow and produce
02:05everything we need
02:19two or three copy numbers because we have one you can see a different color so this is more red
02:25yeah you can see it's pretty stable the problem we had before was the stability so some of the colonies
02:29were white i see yeah and now all of them look pretty good because i was just going to ask like is that
02:47a reliable way basically of it
02:50multiple copies even if they lose one
02:53they still use the stability but i think it's so interesting that we are now starting a pc project
02:57producing only in this collaboration we want to to explore a space bioreactor so these are bioreactors
03:07that work in space so a bioreactor is just a vessel a fermenter where cells grow is the same when we brew
03:14beer or wine we have a vessel and that's where the organism can breathe and grow so they look like
03:21the one i have behind me so this is a bioreactor they're actually growing cells of yeast that are
03:26producing a particular vitamin precursor and they can be collected extracted and consumed so for space
03:34this is this is very difficult to bring so we need to rethink how this bioreactor may look like
03:47so this is where the great collaboration with
03:56so this is where the great collaboration with
04:00uh frontiers space is coming along and they are developing devices that will work in space as our
04:23bioreactors work in our planet and they look like something like that that's smaller more modest but
04:30this will allow us to generate a lot of information on how these cells behave in space conditions
04:45it's not the actual bioreactor but these are the prototypes uh and this one i would refer to more
04:50as a storage device as a storage device actually
04:56we'll do one two weeks ago and then so with these big pilots we can see the chromatograms
05:04the lab in the box fundamentally it's is a bio and wet chemistry lab like what you see here essentially
05:25it has fluid control thermal control the pressure is controlled the atmosphere is controlled and what
05:31we're trying to do is really bring it back down and miniaturize them and make them automated for the
05:36fundamental reason is that mass per kilogram is the unit economics of space the heavier is the more
05:42expensive it will be and what we're trying to do is reduce the cost and make it more accessible
05:46sometimes at the beginning you have to hold it yeah like this
06:08yeah so our entire lab actually just about this tall by 10 by 10
06:13it weighs just under one kilogram it has about three experiments on board so we have optical capability
06:21we have a experiment that we have with imperial and we also have our own microfluidic device experiment
06:27but what we're seeing now is that the whole space infrastructure is is getting built so we're going
06:43to have commercial space station we have much more regular uplift and down lift capability that enables us
06:49to really build and permanently station our bioreactors that ways we you know we can we can manufacture let's
06:55say cancer drugs in space and bring it back down for research or therapeutics but down the line when
07:01we have the moon base we need this kind of bioreactors to be able to really sustain permanent settlement of
07:07human civilization in this environment
07:19now
07:23so
07:27so
07:35things
07:35they're Carlos
07:35so
07:36you
07:36Beep
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