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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.

Still, astronauts sometimes lament the drabness of their pre-prepared space meals, and have expressed even cravings for fries.

So if we do ever send astronauts to Mars they might be tucking into freshly printed pizza.

food was sucked out of silver pouches by astronauts strapped into experimental capsules that had escaped the confines of Earth.

Ancient astronauts? A new study of 16 of what are called desert kites in the eastern Sinai desert confirms

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 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

In 2008, the shuttle Endeavour astronauts were happy to serve as guinea pigs for a variety of new dishes,

It wasnt the first time a celebrity chef tried to perk up astronaut cuisine though#Emeril Lagasses spicy green beans,

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.

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.

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:

while he sat down to dinner with his Russian crewmates and visiting shuttle astronauts in June 2008.

#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.

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,

and is staffed by rotating crews of six astronauts from the United states, Russia, Europe, Japan and Canada.

NASA hopes to be able to fly its astronauts on commercial carriers by about 2017. Photo credit:

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.

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

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.

If you show the child a movie of an astronaut floating in space while you re saying the word#oeweightless,

It could bring an end to astronauts on the space station subsisting largely on a diet of prepackaged dehydrated food.

which should make it possible for astronauts to grow their own food. We call it Veggie,

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?

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.

If astronauts are able to continually grow fresh food on Mars through reproduction, it would bode well for them both physically

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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.

The findings are important both for the health of astronauts doing long stints aboard the International Space station and for future spaceflight missions.

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.

The tallest rocket ever constructed is NASA's massive Saturn V a three-stage booster used to launch American astronauts to the moon in the late 1960s and early 1970s.

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Astronauts Drink Urine and Other Waste</a p><p>The trend of new moms eating their placenta after giving birth has been on the rise in certain segments of the U s. population for years now.

And NASA sees 3d printed food as a revolutionary way to make personalised meals for astronauts.

Beyond providing cosmic delivery food would also be tailored for astronauts'daily activities. will printed food go beyond novelty value?

It also became part of a long line of animal astronauts. But since science has proved time and again that humans can survive the extraterrestrial trip why do countries bother sending monkeys and other living creatures up into space at all these days?

NASA has been funding research into methods of storing food for long periods while keeping astronauts healthy.

Indeed astronauts have grown successfully peas and mizuna lettuce in space along with carbohydrate staples like wheat and rice.

just as astronauts do today. All of the above-mentioned crops can grow hydroponically to conserve space and resources.

The worldwide adoption of the hazard analysis critical control points system HACCP originally developed by NASA to protect astronauts from food poisoning makes it less likely that the world food supply could lead to a major epidemic

In October 1995 NASA and the University of Wisconsin created the technology to do so with the goal of feeding astronauts on long space voyages

former NASA astronaut Mike LÃ pez-Alegrã a told Live Science last week ahead of the party.

retired NASA astronaut Franklin Chang DÃ az; and planetary scientist Maria Zuber. Physicist Stephen Hawking even addressed the crowd via telecast.

#Strange Spikes Over Siberia Puzzle Astronauts Houston we have a question: What are these weird spiky shapes we're

That's what astronauts were asking this June when the sight of strange dark-green features running along Siberia's Kulunda Steppe left them stumped according to NASA's Earth Observatory.

Fortunately for the ISS astronauts'burning curiosity researchers at NASA Johnson Space center in Houston had answers.

The spikes also appear in a winter scene snapped by an ISS astronaut more than a decade ago in 2003.

A newly released video based on several stunning snapshots taken by astronauts reveals the beauty and power of the erupting volcano.

US President Barack Obama tells Florida's Kennedy space center on 15 april that sending astronauts to the Moon is so last century (see go. nature. com/zwdf2w for more.

NASA expects the craft to ferry astronauts, supplies and research materials to the International Space station when its shuttle fleet retires next year.

Research Shuttle swansong NASA's space shuttle Discovery launched for its 39th and final flight on 24 february, taking six astronauts as well as supplies and additional science capabilities to the International Space station on an 11

Two more missions, perhaps carrying astronauts, will follow in 2012. If the next stages of testing go to plan,

NASA science head John Grunsfeld, an astrophysicist and astronaut who carried out repairs on the Hubble Space Telescope

three astronauts boarded the country s orbiting Tiangong 1 space module on 18 Â June.

) The mission carried China s first female astronaut, Liu Yang. See go. nature. com/f5qkka for more.

R. Sachs/CNP/Corbissally Ride dies Scientist, astronaut and educator Sally Ride (pictured), who was the first US woman in space,

astronauts and former NASA officials, says that the telescope would be the world s first privately funded deep-space mission.

A year in space Two astronauts one American and one Russian will stay on the International Space station for an entire year in a mission beginning in spring 2015,

Russian cosmonaut Valery Polyakov spent 437 days in space on the Mir space station in 1994-95.

Cosmonauts carried out a spacewalk on 27 december to mount Urethecast's video camera on the hull of the Russian Zvezda module,

Leaky helmet An incident that nearly drowned an astronaut on a spacewalk last July could have been avoided,

Italian astronaut Luca  Parmitano had to feel his way back to the International Space station airlock as more than 1  litre of water collected in his helmet

if astronauts aboard the space station had investigated fully the first incident. Radiation leak The US Department of energy reported on 26 february that 13 employees had tested positive for low-level radiation exposure following a leak at its Waste Isolation Pilot Plant near Carlsbad, New mexico.

because the technology did not exist to shield astronauts from the solar wind. We might be able to go to the moon one day soon technology has increased vastly since the 60's especially force field tech.@

Those astronauts go up and come down on a regular basis the shuttle missions went up and came down on a regular basis.

because all of those astronauts would have died of radiation poisoning. And we DID in fact land on the moon the proof is in the retroreflectors that we can use on a regular basis to measure (with extreme precision) with lasers the distance between Earth and the moon.

Such space-farmed produce could save on the weight of the supplies astronauts need to bring with them;

provide astronauts with a tastier and more nutritious diet; and even offer some psychological comfort.

The excerpts from American astronaut Don Pettit's writings about a zucchini plant he brought to space not for food but just for fun.

The Great wall of china cannot be seen from space (confirmed by astronauts orbiting the earth at just 217 miles up)

#NASA Invests In 3-D Food Printer For Mars Missionsit would take a lot of food to get astronauts to Mars but

The cartridges would all have a 30-year shelf-life enough time for say a trip to Mars. The astronauts can switch to real cooking once they get there.

I can imagine a group of hungry astronauts crowded around a printer as it slowly extrudes their food layer by layer.

The chubby astronauts would be able to live off their stored reserves of fat and would only need water

Fat astronauts would also be accustom to spending extended periods of time lying in a seat.

And most importantly fat astronauts would have the naturally happy type of personality needed for long duration space flights.

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Remember the Earth is a moving target traveling around the sun at 65000 miles per hour former astronaut Ed Lu said in a public appearance at the Stanford Institute for Economic policy Research earlier this month.

When the astronauts go up in their beautiful skyrockets my stomach goes up with them until it collides with my lungs and pushes them against my throat.

Whereas the astronauts must become accustomed to weightlessness and vacuum the undersea men must learn to endure the opposites They receive little official encouragement.

Once it reaches the International Space station astronauts can open it to use it and stretch it up to a foot

Astronauts can also push the sides down completely to observe their plants. The structure comes with red blue and green LEDS for the plants.

Russian cosmonauts have grown a number of crops aboard the International Space station using a stiff-sided greenhouse with removable trays.

so astronauts can try growing more and larger vegetables. For the April 14 flight the veggie pillows will carry romaine lettuce seedlings of the Outredgeous variety.

And yes cosmonauts have given them a munch. We have gotten also experience with the astronauts and cosmonauts eating the fresh food they grow

and not having problems crop scientist Bruce Bugbee wrote to Popular Science in an email.

Bugbee is a professor at Utah State university and has worked on studies of food grown in space.

Space agencies hope the fresh vegetables will feed not only astronauts'bodies but their spirits as well. Caring for a plant every day provides vital psychological relief giving astronauts a small remembrance of Earth NASA project scientist Howard Levine told Modern Farmer in a 2013 feature about space veggies.

Produce in the International Space station grow in a greenhouse named Lada after the Russian goddess of spring.

which astronauts are able to grow several generations of crops before the modules'nutrients are used up.

At that point the astronauts send the modules back to Earth for analysis. Biologists On earth examine the modules to see

Once those are done astronauts will plant it with rice tomatoes and bell peppers none of which have been grown in space before.

Researchers are continuing that tradition by designing robots to work in a deep-space habitat tending gardens and growing food for astronaut explorers.

As astronauts explore beyond Earth they will need to make their habitat as self-sustaining as possible.

for the astronauts. The'Plants Anywhere'approach is designed to help minimize astronaut workload said Hava whose degree will focus in bioastronautics.

This keeps them free to concentrate on more important tasks. A year ago the University of Colorado student team demonstrated a gardening system with plants robotically tended on a Lazy susan-like device.

If an astronaut requests tomatoes for a salad the system decides which specific plants have the ripest tomatoes

We also want the plants to be in the astronauts'environment so they can see them smell them

Hava noted that the team has benefited from support from former NASA astronaut Joe Tanner who now is a senior instructor of aerospace engineering sciences at the University of Colorado and Nikolaus Correll assistant professor of computer science at the university.

Students from Cottage Lane Elementary in Rockland County New york and Hillsborough County Florida envisioned astronauts growing their own lettuce.

Onion cell mutations could have ramifications for other organisms including astronauts. The team at Academy at Shawnee in Kentucky wonders whether microgravity would increase the rate of yeast fermentation in honey.

Eighth graders at Pennsauken Phifer Middle school in New jersey will examine the growth rate in microgravity of penicillium which future astronauts could grow as an antibiotic to treat infections.

when they grow up the astronauts of the future will be grateful for their hard work now.

#Spacexâ##s Dragon headed to space station to create astronaut farmersenter the Dragon takes on a whole new meaning this month as Spacex's Dragon capsule heads to the International Space station for its third commercial resupply mission

Astronauts will harvest the plants for further investigation. With continued plant growth studies aboard the space station using facilities like Veggie crews may one day consume produce during long-term missions in low-Earth orbit

An astronaut on STS-126 activating an experiment Tell me about the spider in space for your K-12 program.

How to feed an astronaut: a talk with NASA's space food managerwhile it's not exactly five-star cuisine,

astronauts survive on more than the freeze-dried space food found in museum gift shops. To get a look inside NASA's kitchen,

How has evolved astronaut food over the years? In the beginning, we didn't even know if people could swallow in microgravity.

Early astronaut food was basically tubes and cubes: pureed applesauce in a toothpaste tube or compressed cubes of sandwiches or breads or desserts.

The astronauts said it tasted OK, but it just wasn't satisfying because it wasn't close to

In addition, it's very difficult to transfer food from Point A to Point B. The astronauts eat their food within the food package most of the time.

We want the astronauts to be able to eat out of the food package with utensils.

The astronauts can sit over that, so the crumbs will go right into the suction.

--even though it's a wonderful and exciting opportunity--astronauts are separated from family and friends. You may crave comfort foods you grew up with,

Do astronauts determine their own menus? We have approximately 180 items on our food list.

What are some of the most popular food items for astronauts? Shrimp cocktail is very popular.

I'm working with the astronauts. I'm developing food for Mars. It makes the job very special.

astronauts exploring Mars will build hydroponic growth labs where vegetables can be grown. These crops will provide the crew with added nutrition and variety./

and NASA showed periodic interest in the idea as a way of feeding astronauts on extremely long space missions.

If you re not familiar with Lely Astronaut A4 robotic milking system, it essentially a boxed area that the cows walk into and are milked at their leisure.

The appeal of the Astronaut A4 isn t only that it automates the milking process,

According to Lely, the Astronaut system produces 10 to 15 percent more milk than conventional farmers who typically milk twice a day.

which users produced videos showing how they use the Lely Astronaut system and how it affects their farm.

The hands off milking system that the Astronaut A4 provides allows farmers to spend less time milking

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