"Those Veggies Grown on the ISS Get Humans Closer to Mars" Topic
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Tango01  | 11 Aug 2015 12:02 p.m. PST |
"The menu in space has grown a lot since John Glenn's very first meal in 1962: On the first five hour-long orbital mission, he sucked applesauce from a tube and drank xylose sugar tablets dissolved in water. Now, astronauts can choose from more than 200 types of dehydrated foods, including a full Thanksgiving meal. But fresh food in space is still a rare treat, sent up with the resupply shipments once every couple of months. Not anymore. Yesterday on the International Space Station, Expedition 44 crew members dined on their first meal of space-grown "Outredgeous" red romaine lettuce. Growing the purple leaves, which the crew seasoned with vinegar and oil, was a concrete step toward making NASA's long-promised manned journey to Mars—and maybe even more permanent space colonies—a reality. "Growing food is one of the technologies that we need to have to go to Mars," says Trent Smith, manager for the plant-growing project at NASA. On long journeys, fresh food could supplement the dehydrated supplies, adding nutrients lost in food packaging and a little taste of home…"
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| skippy0001 | 11 Aug 2015 4:03 p.m. PST |
Is that a Triffid back there? |
| Andrew Walters | 12 Aug 2015 9:26 a.m. PST |
I am very happy for them, but this is such a tiny piece of the Mars puzzle that the reference is silly. You might as well announce you've designed the underwear people will need to wear on Mars. How about solving the radiation problem? Otherwise you have to live underground nearly all the time. How about solving the gravity problem? Astronauts spending long periods in low gravity are always experiencing new health issues, I suspect gravity is as necessary, long term, as air. This accomplishment is probably more useful to botany than to Mars planning. And the most important question wasn't answered: did these crops produce viable seeds? |
| zoneofcontrol | 12 Aug 2015 3:08 p.m. PST |
The heck with veggies. Can they grow chocolate cake?!? |
| Charlie 12 | 12 Aug 2015 8:28 p.m. PST |
The heck with veggies. Can they grow chocolate cake?!? NOW THAT would be useful! |
| Gunfreak | 13 Aug 2015 11:57 a.m. PST |
I'm not that much of a fan of kakes. How about a nice stake with baked potato and pepper sauce. |
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