Rocket science is hard. Designing systems capable of launching materials—including humans—into orbit and then smoothly landing back on terrestrial ground is one of the greatest feats of engineering we’ve achieved. But surviving in space will be even harder. In his brilliant 2020 keynote on the future of genetic engineering, Asimov CEO @alectricity made the following argument: And space, the final frontier. Everyone talks about rocket science being the hard problem about outer space. But biology is the really hard thing about outer space. We need to able to manufacture food and therapeutics in the defined closed system of a space station. One day, we need to be able to terraform entire planets to be hospitable for life. We need to be able to engineer biomes. These are biology problems, not rocket problems. Today, in the Century of Biology, I explore the landscape of biotech-enabled sustainable space exploration. Read here: centuryofbio.com/p/colonizin…