Matt Damon pulled it off in The #Martian, and future astronauts on long-duration missions will have to do it too: recycle their air, water and food to stay alive. ESA’s long-running MELiSSA project leads the world in this topic, covered here in a new NYU Scienceline report: http://scienceline.org/2016/11/getting-ready-for-a-real-life-the-martian/
