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It is a little bit annoying that thehistorical information is changing over time. The pretty picture book aimed at students "Inside Biosphere 2, Earth Science Under Glass" by Mary Kay Carson has one slim mention of the Space aspect of the original project:"The goal of Biosphere 2's creators was to build an enclosed living environment that could provide humans with all of their needed air, water and food. Why? To prove that it could be done, and that they were smart enough to do it. The project's funders also wanted to invent and sell technologies for living in space stations and on other planets, like Mars."As if you didn't know that the Space background was going to be minimally mentioned in the book, what with the subtitle "EARTH SCIENCE Under Glass".A bit more depth to the overall history and day to day engineering work is Life Under Glass by Abigail Alling, Mark Nelson and Sally Silverstone. Forward by Joe Allen (Astronaut, original supporter of O'Neillian concepts and Executive Vice President of Space Industries International when the book came out in 1993.)I thought that "The Human Experiment" by Jane Poynter was a great read. Came out in 2006 ... I'm putting that on my re-read list not just because i recall it had a lot of full tech and space background but also because, let me check it, yes, also because it has that story of Steve Bannon's involvement. Yes, that Steve Bannon.But if it is the Closed Loop tech that you are really interested in beyond the specifics of Biosphere 2 then save up your dollars and try to get a copy of "Manmade Closed Ecological Systems" by Gitelson, Lisovsky and MacElrioy. Sites try to gouge you on the price of this one but if you poke around you can get it for a realistic amount. I think I got it from Barnes & Noble online for 45 bucks. If you're new to the tech don't let this one scare you at all, it is very readable. Honest.Hope some of that helps and thanks for putting this back in the top of mind. Closed Loop systems are a very important tech that is languishing and needing new champions to go out and do some experimentation.RobertOn August 30, 2017 at 2:02 AM "baur baur baur@chello.at [spacesettlers]" wrote: lack of funding .. biosphere II was pretty expensive to run .. Servusmarkus "killgore4darkskies@... [spacesettlers]" hat am 30. August 2017 um 07:55 geschrieben: I have always been fascinated by Biosphere 2, read a number of articles and a couple of books on it, and now had a chance to tour it ... very sad to see the state it's in now. I don't understand why a 3rd and 4th and 5th air-tight Mission was not undertaken - by now 99% of the kinks could have been worked out so people could be fully simulating a space colony.