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Biosphere 2
Biosphere 2, located in Oracle, Arizona, U.S., shown in 2008. The facility was originally developed to study survivability and assess whether humans were capable of building and living in self-sustaining colonies in outer space. It was later used as a scientific research facility.
The terrarium design for Biosphere 2 was conceived in the 1980s by the American engineer John P. Allen.1
Allen served as the director of Space Biospheres Ventures, the organization responsible for the development of the facility located in Oracle, Arizona.1