Posted on 09/15/2010 5:58:47 PM PDT by KevinDavis
Heading to Mars? Save room for three tons of food. That's about how much you'll need to feed a crew of four during an 18-month trip.
Or, you could harvest your own crops from a space greenhouse, like the prototype unit NASA is testing in Arizona this month during its space technology lollapalooza known as Desert RATs.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.discovery.com ...
Do astronauts eat anything with little to no nutritional value while in space?
(Actually, I've thought for a while if NASA is going to send men and women on multiyear voyages, they're going to have to deal with the sex in space issue.)
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