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Simulated Mars Base Will Help Future Menu Planners Pack the Interplanetary Pantry
With Mars500 now behind us, NASA is dialing up its own Mars mission simulation in conjunction with Cornell and the University of Hawaii-Manoa. Unlike Mars500, the NASA-sponsored sim won’t run the full 520 days estimated as necessary to complete a real Mars mission. But the four-month simulation will focus very heavily on one critical aspect of any future manned voyage to deep space: food. NASA wants to know the cheapest and easiest ways to round out an interplanetary pantry so that astronauts will get the nutrition they need while...
Published By: Popsico - Tuesday, 21 February