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Astronaut food: Can you cook fries in space? If humans ever voyage to a planet far bigger than Earth,
but the gastronomic preferences of future astronauts are the genuine motivation for experiments conducted by chemists John Lioumbas and Thodoris Karapantsios of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in Greece.
That's why their work is supported by the European space agency. Preparing food in space presents unique challenges.
And if you wanted to cook with a naked flame oe perhaps unlikely inside a space station oe the shape of the flame would be compact and round,
Still, astronauts sometimes lament the drabness of their pre-prepared space meals, and have expressed even cravings for fries.
Nasa recently admitted that as part of a programme"to turn science fiction into fact  they are funding work to develop a 3d food printer.
So if we do ever send astronauts to Mars they might be tucking into freshly printed pizza.
near Amboseli, a game park in southwestern Kenya, the Kenya Wildlife Service has collared  several lions with tracking devices that send text messages to cell phones of rangers
and satellite signals, allowing rangers to track them via Google earth. In Central Kenya's Ol Pejeta Conservancy
owners plan to start test-flying a $75, 000 drone to live-stream information on the rhinos to rangers on the ground.
 says Steven Barrett, assistant professor of astronautics and aeronautics at the Massachusetts institute of technology (MIT), and the director of the Laboratory for Aviation and the Environment."
food was sucked out of silver pouches by astronauts strapped into experimental capsules that had escaped the confines of Earth.
The data came from Lamonts new 1, 000-year tree-ring atlas of Asian weather,
almost looks like a spaceship amid the surrounding houses. It sits on the site of a former landfill.
Ancient astronauts? A new study of 16 of what are called desert kites in the eastern Sinai desert confirms
the rangers can then marshal reinforcements from the nearby fire station to put out the fire. DEVICE WORKS ON SOLAR POWER The system is suitable in areas where there is no electricity supply
His talks on futurist topics have captivated people ranging from high level of government officials to executives in Fortune 500 companies including NASA, IBM, AT&T, Hewlett-packard
Then the Canadian rebel turned his attention to the far more important temperature curves of the recent past, those of Phil Jones and of his comrade-in-arms at NASA, James Hansen.
Now a new study led by Nadine Unger of NASAS Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) in New york city offers a more intuitive way to understand whats changing the Earths climate.
Thats the kind of crap youd expect astronauts to eat as a last resort when supplies are low and a Donner Party mentality is starting to creep in.
and adding some flavor is extended essential for periods astronauts spend in orbit. You cant expect an average meal on the International Space station to be like a night at the Ritz,
but no ones complaining. The ambiance of orbital dining apparently more than compensates for lackluster meals. But astronauts have a few standby favorites as well as the occasional special treat.
Dinners in space have come a long way since the start of the Space age but which cosmic gastronomic delights are the best?
Japanese Takeout The addition of Japans laboratory to the space station not only provided a huge new module for science experiments,
In 2008, the shuttle Endeavour astronauts were happy to serve as guinea pigs for a variety of new dishes,
a Thai chicken dish and vegetable curry for the crew of space shuttle Discovery in December 2006.
It wasnt the first time a celebrity chef tried to perk up astronaut cuisine though#Emeril Lagasses spicy green beans,
which were among five dishes flown to the space station earlier that year, apparently held up well in zero-gravity. 8. Yogurt Bone loss is a problem during long-duration spaceflights,
Astronauts can choose from blueberry-raspberry, peach and strawberry. The Russians go one better with garlic-and herb-studded cheeses.
Theres no one to make chicken soup for rundown astronauts. The next best thing might be chicken consomme.
tortillas are the bread of the space program. One of the favored fillings: good old peanut butter and jelly.
On special occasions, astronauts have managed to bring up other yeasty specialties, including bagels (imported from the family bakery of Canadian-born astronaut Greg Chamitoff)
and German pumpernickel bread. 5. Shrimp Among the lessons six-time flier Story Musgrave passed along to rookie astronauts:
Eat shrimp cocktail. The dehydrated crustaceans, coated in a spicy sauce, are requested the most food item in NASAS space pantry.
Musgrave ate them at every meal#including breakfast. 4. Hot sauce A squirt of hot sauce can do wonders to wake up taste buds deadened by weightlessness,
#in NASA parlance, but you and I would call them M&ms. Itd be a tough call
whether astronauts like eating them or playing with them best. What we do know is that the colorful orbs show well on TV. 2. Dried produce Fresh fruits
so astronauts make do with a variety of canned and dried offerings. Russian cuisine presents another option:
but after a few months in orbit, apparently folks will try anything to break up the monotony. 1. Mystery Meals Space station flight engineer Garrett Reisman kept the cameras rolling
while he sat down to dinner with his Russian crewmates and visiting shuttle astronauts in June 2008.
One of the more dramatic applications of plant-growing chambers under LED lights was by NASA
which installed them in the Space shuttle and the space station Mir in the 1990s as part of its experiment with microgravity.
One town pilot-tested a shuttle for seniors to supplement barebones public transit. The Atlanta Housing Authority is working with the commission to retrofit high-rise apartments that house a lot of older residents,
Video and pics) The stunning design resembles a spaceship;##it will be four stories and house 12,000.
#Visa and Mastercard now dominate the major tracks that shuttle credit card and debit payments between banks and retailers.
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#Is Eating Insects the Answer to Reducing our Food Footprint? Flickr user avlxyz tries an insect at Chiang Mai bazaar Hungry for a grasshopper taco?
#Is NASA tracking the Cosmic Shift? Cosmic changes are coming. When it comes to terraforming,
#explains lead author Merav Opher, a NASA Heliophysics Guest Investigator from George Mason University. This magnetic field holds the interstellar cloud together
IBEX program scientist at NASA Headquarters. Interstellar space just beyond the edge of the solar system is unexplored mostly territory.
Voyager measurements are relatively local to the spacecraft, however. IBEX is filling in the big picture.#
discovered last year by a NASA Small Explorer satellite IBEX, could be explained by a geometric effect coming up because of approach of the Sun to the boundary between the Local Cloud of interstellar gas
NASA may be controlled a heavily and mostly covert agency, but they ve gotta produce enough public results to justify their funding and existence.
In the report, marking the tenth anniversary of its first Tobacco Atlas, the WLF and the American Cancer Society said
and tobacco is responsible for more than 15 percent of all male deaths and 7 percent of female deaths, the new Tobacco Atlas report found.
#NASA issues call for new space taxis to fly to International Space station NASA hopes to be able to fly its astronauts on commercial carriers by about 2017.
Program managers from NASA said they are looking for at least two U s. firms to design
and build space taxis to ferry astronauts to and from the International Space station. NASA plans to invest $300 million to $500 million in each of the firms selected under new 21-month partnership agreements, Ed Mango,
manager of NASA s Commercial Crew program, said at an industry briefing at the Kennedy space center prior to the release of a solicitation on Tuesday.
The new program aims to build upon previous NASA investments in companies designing commercial passenger spaceships.
With the retirement of the U s. space shuttles last year, Russia has a monopoly on flying crews to the station,
a $100 billion orbiting laboratory for medical, materials science and other research. China, the only other country that has flown people in orbit,
Russia charges NASA about $60 million per person for rides to the station, which flies about 240 miles above Earth
and is staffed by rotating crews of six astronauts from the United states, Russia, Europe, Japan and Canada.
to test fly their spaceships in orbit by the middle of the decade, Mango said. Goals of the demonstration flight include reaching an altitude of at least 230 miles,
Since 2010, NASA has invested a total of $365. 5 million in private companies, including $130. 9 million in Boeing, $125. 6 million in Sierra nevada Corp and $75 million in Space Exploration Technologies,
which would fly on an Atlas 5 rocket. Spacex, already selected by NASA to fly cargo to the station,
plans to upgrade its Dragon freighter and Falcon 9 rocket to fly crew as well. Sierra nevada is developing a winged vehicle called the Dream Chaser that resembles a miniature space shuttle.
Like Boeing s spaceship, it too would launch aboard Atlas 5 rockets, which are manufactured and sold by United Launch Alliance, a Boeing-Lockheed martin partnership.
NASA has $406 million to spend on commercial crew programs for the year that began October 1.
Mango said about 75 percent of that money is available for the next phase of the program
Because of future funding uncertainties, NASA is asking its potential partners to propose how they would proceed with flat funding of $400 million a year after 2014,
NASA hopes to be able to fly its astronauts on commercial carriers by about 2017. Photo credit:
It s the original home of Ball aerospace (one of the first NASA contractors herbal tea pioneer Celestial Seasonings, Storagetek (later acquired by Sun microsystems for $4. 1 billion),
#NASA plans to grow vegetables in space NASA is organizing the Vegetable Production System (VEGGIE) program that will send packs of seed material to the ISS.
Astronaut Don Pettit successfully grew a zucchini, broccoli, and sunflower on the ISS, but NASA is now researching how vegetables may be grown in space for consumption.
NASA is organizing the Vegetable Production System (VEGGIE) program that will send packs of a pellet-like seed material wrapped in Kevlar to the ISS.
When planted under LED lights this material will turn into lettuce. Once grown, the lettuce will be sent back to Earth for analysis to determine
We wouldn t want our astronauts coming down with space food poisoning, would we? And then once the food is deemed safe for consumption,
the astronauts will get treated with a fresh meal. NASA chose lettuce for the experiment
because it s generally ready to eat straight out of the soil. Other vegetableish things like potatoes are only good when cooked,
but NASA hopes to eventually grow other vegetables like radishes, peas, and tomatoes. Growing plants in space also has other
With astronauts being so far from home and confined to tight quarters, the plants they grow could provide therapeutic relief from the stresses they face.
The astronauts may also benefit from the splash of color that plants provide, especially in an environment that consists of mostly whites and grays.
but NASA hopes that this research could give new insight into how crops behave in space.
these cameras are to be mounted to the outside of the International Space station. But their purpose isn t to capture images of space#hey ll be pointed toward the Earth.
and it is the second-largest cooperative international scientific endeavor (ranking behind only the Space station).
A 1973 NASA document summarizing the biological effects of vacuums on mammals gives you 10 seconds of consciousness
and 3d printers cranking out spacecraft parts. Then he went toe-to-toe with Musk in a discussion of evacuated-tube transport.
Musk went back to work on his spacecraft and electric cars; Oster is forging ahead on ET3. In his Rand report of 41 years ago,
NASA. 30.)) The Great wall of china isn t the only man-made structure visible from space. Depending on your definition of space,
NASA. 31.)) There is no such thing as someone having a#oephotographic#memory#only very good memories.
If you show the child a movie of an astronaut floating in space while you re saying the word#oeweightless,
I can only assume today s technology is hundreds of times more precise than anything we were working with back then. 2007 NASA image of forest fires in California The above photo was infrared taken with thermal imaging sensors on NASA s Ikhana unmanned research
By now we have heard all about GE s smart jet engines that transmit over one terabyte of sensor data per flight.
Space Based Power stations The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) recently announced its 25-year plan to build the world s first 1-gigawatt power plant in space.
#Nasa tests growing lettuce in space A plant growth chamber designed to make gardens thrive in weightlessness.
NASA scientists believe they may have found a solution to how to grow vegetables in space.
It could bring an end to astronauts on the space station subsisting largely on a diet of prepackaged dehydrated food.
If shoots emerged there was no sun. In short the space station is a gardener s nightmare. The solution appears to be aveggie flight pillow a tailored environment
which should make it possible for astronauts to grow their own food. We call it Veggie,
said Gioia Massa of the Kennedy space center. It s a plant growth chamber designed to make gardens thrive in weightlessness.
which went up to the International Space station last month. The idea is simple. The veggie pillows are bags of space dirt with slow-release fertiliser.
But astronauts will not be allowed to savour the first crop, Dr Massa explained. First, we have to bring the lettuce home for analysis. Is it safe to eat?
The aerospace giant now assembles 787 Dreamliners at a rate of three a month at a massive facility adjacent to the Charleston airport,
#How NASA scientists plan to farm on Mars Scientist Angelo Vermeulen on a Mars mock-up in Hawaii.
NASA has big plans for Mars in the coming decades, including intentions to blast a fifth rover onto the planet s surface by 2020
NASA-funded team that spent four months last year on the hills of the Mauna loa volcano in Hawaii to study
volcanic soil is similar to that of Mars. Vermeulen says one of the team s main concerns was combating what s known asmenu fatigue in astronauts.
astronaut. While the HI-SEAS team s primary research goal was to compare prepackaged foods
and meals astronauts could make with a limited supply of shelf-stable ingredients, members were encouraged also to devise their own studies on the Mars mock-up.
and, as such, free up time for the astronauts, he says. Vermeulen also experimented with growing sprouts to give the HI-SEAS team a change of pace from shelf food.
He says the mung beans were used in a curry dish consumed by the astronauts, and the alfalfa were added to a sushi recipe.
soil provided by NASA and compared those crops to a control group that used soil from the nearby banks of the Rhine river.
If astronauts are able to continually grow fresh food on Mars through reproduction, it would bode well for them both physically
which protects free speech. 4. Lonely birthdays The government shutdown coincided withâ Yosemite national park s 123rd and NASA's 55th birthday.
A space rock threatens Earth when NASA out? The Asteroid Watch program based at NASA's Jet propulsion laboratory in Pasadena Calif. has ceased activity along with other federally funded agencies.
Fortunately however the Minor planet Centerâ in Cambridge Mass. and the European space agency are still on the watch in case a space rock nears planet Earth. 15.
Most searched terms by Americans over the last seven days While there was an explosive increase in Google searches for government shutdown
s Jet propulsion laboratory in Pasadena Calif. has ceased activity along with other federally funded agencies. Fortunately however the<a href=http://www. space. com/23035-government-shutdown-dangerous-asteroids-search. html>Minor planet Center</a>in Cambridge Mass. and the European space agency are still on the watch in case a space rock nears planet Earth.</
</p><p></p><p>While there was an explosive increase in Google searches for government shutdown and healthcare. gov over the last seven days it appears football coach Lane Kiffin and Sen.
Even NASA is considering quinoa for long-duration planetary space flights perhaps as an apology for its Tang years.
t really suitable for a big glass of water (unless<a href=http://www. space. com/20867-astronauts-drink-urine-and-other-wastewater-video. html>you'
re on the International Space station</a>)much of it could be put to use watering crops freeing up freshwater for drinking.
(unless you're on the International Space station) much of it could be put to use watering crops freeing up freshwater for drinking.
Space psychologists study how astronauts cope with the conditions of spaceflight and the weightless environment in space.
Astronauts'work is very continuous and highly regimented. The actual spaceflight involves unfamiliar physical sensations such as weightlessness and acceleration.
Space psychologists make recommendations about the best way for astronauts to perform physical and mental work as well as rest.
In 2011 NASA's Operation Icebridge discovered a giant crack crossing the ice shelf. The Icebridge expedition tracks yearly changes in the Antarctic ice.
Besides the lengthening of nights and cool evening weather which are great for stargazers autumn truly is aurora season according to NASA.
and the Harvest moon emerged according to NASA. 4. Why fall leaves may fade Climate change may dull the picture most synonymous with autumn fall leaves.
Since then the study of the CMB with space-based instruments like COBE WMAP and now the Planck Spacecraft continues to be a rich source of information about the early universe and it s deepest structure.</
Park rangers protected some forested areas which teem with monkeys and gorillas while nearby hunted areas were full of rodents such as rats and porcupines.
and Uganda is to pay former hunters to serve as park rangers or wildlife guides for tourists she said.
(which are invisible to the human eye) according to the Earth Observatory of the National aeronautics and space administration (NASA).
And since the Industrial revolution the burning of fossil fuels like coal oil and gasoline have increased greatly the amount of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere according to NASA's Earth Observatory.
CO2 methane nitrous oxide water vapor and ozone are among the most prevalent according to NASA. Chlorofluorocarbons (CFCS) were used once commonly as refrigerants
A drop in solar activity for example is believed to have caused the Little Ice age a period of unusually colder climate that lasted from about 1650 to 1850 according to NASA.
At the time Hansen was still the director of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New york. He retired from that position in April in part to pursue political and legal efforts on combating climate change.
#Coolest Science Stories of the Week<p></p><p>NASA's next mission to...home?
></p><p>NASA's newest rover won't be exploring another planet but will take a look at part of our own.
It was developed from 2010-2011 by teams of students in summer engineering boot camps at Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland according to a release from NASA.</
<a href=http://www. livescience. com/29259-nasa-rover-explores-greenland. html target=blank>NASA Rover to Explore...
Primitive life could have lived on ancient Mars NASA says.</</p><p>A sample of Mars drilled from a rock by NASA's Curiosity rover and then studied by onboard instruments shows ancient Mars could have supported living microbes NASA officials announced today (March 12) in a statement and press conference.</
</p><p>Full Story:<<a href=http://www. livescience. com/27841-ancient-mars-microbes-curiosity-rover. html target=blank>Wow!
Ancient Mars Could Have supported Primitive Life NASA Says</a p><p></p><p>A newfound particle discovered at the world's largest atom smasher last year is indeed a Higgs boson the particle thought to explain how other
Ancient Mars Could Have supported Primitive Life NASA Says</a p><p></p><p>A newly deciphered Egyptian text dating back almost 1200 years tells part of the crucifixion story of Jesus with apocryphal
and apparently flattened reeds and grass which he assumed had been made by the alien spacecraft (but
Many who favor an extraterrestrial explanation claim that aliens physically make the patterns themselves from spaceships;
The same thing is true with other explanations including alien spacecraft; the only things ever caught on camera making the circles are hoaxers.
Since then park rangers have reduced the number of elephants killed in the reserve each year from 400 to 170
In one unsettling incident last June armed attackers descended on the park headquarters killing park rangers
at the Sagehen Creek Field Station near Truckee Calif. as well as the American River Ranger District of the Tahoe National Forest.
A fire is burning in the treated area of the American River Ranger District. Once the fire dies out the team will have a rare chance to see how the new technique worked in action Conway said.
The newborn iceberg measures about 278 square miles (720 square kilometers) and was seen by Terrasar-X an earth-observing satellite operated by the German Space agency (DLR.
Scientists with NASA's Operation Icebridgefirst discovered a giant crack in the Pine Island Glacier in October 2011 as they were flying over
NASA comes under particular scrutiny in the 2013 Wastebook. The space agency has a budget of about $17 billion a year and represented 0. 48 percent of the federal budget in 2012.
In the 1960s when the space race was at its peak NASA funding represented as much as 4. 4 percent of federal spending.
One project criticized by Coburn is NASA's Countermeasure and Functional Testing Study a project the senator describes as paying people to lie in bed all day.
Well sort of. In fact the Countermeasure and Functional Testing study is part of NASA's long-term bed-rest research that seeks to mimic the antigravity environment of space On earth by positioning participants in bed head tilted slightly downward day in and day out.
This particular project is a 70-day study to test whether exercise can help stave off the loss of muscle
The findings are important both for the health of astronauts doing long stints aboard the International Space station and for future spaceflight missions.
while lying in bed NASA researchers told the Houston Chronicle in September. After 70 days in bed patients need two weeks of rehab in order to walk safely again.
Another NASA project under fire is a $125000 grant for intergalactic planetary pizza tasting. The goal of this project is to develop shelf-stable palatable 3d printed foods for a mission to Mars
What Astronauts Eat Coburn criticizes both projects as well as several other NASA efforts for being focused on a mission to Mars arguing the agency is nowhere near launching such a journey.
But NASA has to take the long view said Michael Halpern the program manager of the Center for Science and Democracy at the science advocacy group Union of Concerned Scientists.
The 10 Most Visited National parks Coburn also criticizes NASA funding for a study on how climate change affects the migration of red crabs on Christmas Island in the Indian ocean.
Perhaps not but the crabs are a test case for how global warming will alter the migration of tropical species according to a Princeton university news release on the study nd Earth science is under the umbrella of NASA's mission.
But between 1999 and 2010 these forest fires burned more than 33000 square miles (85500 square kilometers) an area larger than the state of South carolina according to a NASA release.
or frequency of these understory fires Doug Morton a researcher at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt Md. and the study's lead author said in the statement.
and then gradually disappear as the rain forest recovers the NASA statement said. NASA scientists are using an instrument on the Terra satellite to detect these signs of damage which include slight alterations in the amount and condition of foliage present.
These fires kill between 10 and 50 percent of the trees in the areas they burn
and are likely an important source of carbon emissions that hasn t been accounted adequately for in climate models according to NASA.
and other human sources NASA said. Â Emailâ Douglas Mainâ or follow him onâ Twitterâ orâ Google+.
Goldenfeld is leading a new NASA Astrobiology Institute (NAI) team that aims to provide a clearer understanding of this early stage of evolution.
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By combining the techniques researchers could collaborate with wildlife rangers to protect certain hotspots Wasser told Livescience.
Even after rainfall levels bounced back in the next several years the forest continued to suffer according to a NASA-led group of scientists.
The study's leader Sassan Saatchi of NASA's Jet propulsion laboratory Pasadena Calif. said that more frequent droughts due to climate change could drag on rainforest ecosystems and the carbon cycle in the long run.
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