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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?

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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