Running Head : LEARNING FROM FAILURE : BIOSPHERE II Biosphere II Insert Name Institution Date Biosphere II Biosphere II was a project done in Arizona received recognition on 26th September 1991 . Eight people four men and four women were used in the experiment . Biosphere 2 was an air tight structure with its base made of steel pan and surrounded by an above ground structure that was made of glass and steel . Inside the biosphere was all that could be found in the real world . There was a desert , a marsh , a rain forest , a savannah ,an agricultural land , an ocean and human Habitat . This was in an effort of creating something close to the earth ‘s ecosystem . These people were to live on air , water and food produced by plants (Allen Blake ,2007 .The goals of the experiment were to determine the possibility of building an artificial biosphere and the potential of such biosphere surviving . Also incase the biosphere didn ‘t thrive then the causes would have been established . However , Biosphere II proved to be a great failure which had consumed a lot of resources in its establishment .Trouble started soon as the crew got into biosphere II . First , they experienced a shortage in oxygen supply hindering them from functioning well . The oxygen decreased to low levels such that more of it had to be injected into the system . When the crew were forced to pump in more oxygen into the system in order to sustain them , this indicated that biosphere II…