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Test on bio-regenerative life support module ends

Three Chinese volunteers ended on Tuesday an experiment in which they lived in an enclosed capsule for 105 days, eating only laboratory-grown plants and insects. The experiment was China's first manned test of Moon Palace 1, a 500-cubic meter module that is China's first and the world's third bio-regenerative life support base. The closed lab, located on the campus of Beihang University, is a virtual biosphere, where people can feed themselves by cultivating grains, vegetables, fruits and insects.