Investment in spacefaring enterprises must offer transformative solutions to Earth-based challenges. Providing for the future health of our home planet is possibly the greatest return on investment. Therefore, ensuring that the large costs of astronautics also yield benefits on Earth is critical. The goal of space bioprocess engineering is the design, realization and management of biologically driven technologies for supporting off-world human exploration. Here, we outline several technologies with high dual-use potential, argue that continued investment in such technologies is justified, and offer insight into specific research and development strategies that will increase sociological, political and technological benefits for sustainable development on Earth.

对航天企业的投资必须为地球上的挑战提供变革性的解决方案。为我们地球家园的未来健康提供保障可能是最大的投资回报。因此，确保航天的巨额成本也能为地球带来好处至关重要。空间生物过程工程的目标是设计、实现和管理生物驱动技术，以支持人类对太空的探索。在这里，我们概述了几种具有高双重用途潜力的技术，认为对这些技术的持续投资是合理的，并提供了对具体研究和开发战略的见解，这些战略将增加地球可持续发展的社会、政治和技术效益。