Human space exploration and settlement will require leaps forward in life support for environmental management and healthcare. Life support systems must efficiently use nonrenewable resources packed from Earth while increasingly relying on resources available locally in space. On-demand production of components and materials (e.g., 3D printing and synthetic biology) holds promise to satisfy the evolving set of supplies necessary to outfit human missions to space. We consider here life support systems for missions planned in the 2020s, and discuss how the maker and 'do-it-yourself' (DIY) biology communities can develop rapid, on-demand manufacturing techniques and platforms to address these needs. This Opinion invites the diverse maker community into building the next generation of flight hardware for near-term space exploration.

人类空间探索和解决将需要在环境管理和医疗保健的生命支持方面实现跨越式发展。生命维持系统必须有效利用地球包装的不可再生资源，同时越来越依赖于太空中本地可用的资源。按需生产的组件和材料（例如3D打印和合成生物学）有望满足满足人类太空任务所需的不断发展的物资供应。我们在这里考虑到计划在2020年代执行任务的生命支持系统，并讨论制造商和“自己动手”（DIY）生物学界如何开发快速的按需制造技术和平台来满足这些需求。该意见邀请多样化的制造商社区为下一代短期太空探索构建下一代飞行硬件。