The dispersion in the readings of hydrophysical characteristics obtained in spaceflight
conditions indicated the heterogeneous nature of RM drying, which is not observed in
gravitational conditions. The difference in moisture for a potential of -60 mm of water may
reach 17% (62.58% and 45.87%).
Massoperenos demonstrated the possibility of using the proposed method for studying the
dynamics of capillary sorption in root habitable medium in microgravity conditions, as well as
the possibility of applying the method in the experimental determining of the coefficient of
capillary diffusion of moisture in microgravity conditions for root habitable medium with
limited capillary saturation.
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Souza KA, Ilyin EA, Sychev VN, Jahns GC. Space biology and medicine - U.S. and Russian
cooperation in space biology and medicine. Biological Research in Space. Joint U.S.-Russian
Publication. 2009;(1):1-43.
Sychev VN, Levinskikh MA, Guryeva TS, Podolsky IG. Biological life support systems for space
crews: Some results and prospects. Human Physiology. December 22, 2011;37(7):784-789. doi:
10.1134/S0362119711070292. [Original Russian Text © Sychev VN, Levinskikh MA, Gurieva TS,
Podolsky IG, 2008, published in Aviakosmicheskaya i Ekologicheskaya Meditsina, 2008, Vol. 42,
No 6, pp 92–97.]
Podolsky IG, Bingham GE. Hydrophyscial characteristics of greenhouse root habitable media
(drying mode) in spaceflight conditions. XIII Conference Space Biology and Aerospace Medicine,
Moscow, Russia; June 13-16, 2006.
Grigoriev AI, Sychev VN. Creation of a cosmonaut life-support system based on Biosphere
mechanisms. Vestnik RAN. 2004;74(8):675-681.
Podolsky IG, Norokh AA, Bingham GE. Assessment of error in the thermal pulse method of
measuring moisture content of root habitable media for space greenhouses. Aviakosmicheskaia
i Ekologicheskaia Meditsina (Aerospace and Environmental Medicine). 2002;36(1):55-60.
Podolsky IG, Sychev VN, Levinskikh MA, Kozarinov VI, Planes OM, Bingham GE. Technology
research of higher plant cultivation in space greenhouses FRETS on the International Space
Station. The problems of habitability in the pressurized environment. Materials Research
Conference. June 4-8, 2001:156-157.
This investigation is complete and all results are published.