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What’s on the menu for future space feasts?
msnbc.com ^
| 11/23/05
Posted on 11/23/2005 4:11:53 PM PST by KevinDavis
JOHNSON SPACE CENTER, Texas - A few decades from now, space travelers living on Mars may think the Pilgrims had it easy.
The pioneers who make the 80-million-mile (128-million-kilometer), three-year journey to Mars and back will probably not have the just-add-water-and-heat packaged foods that are aboard the international space station, where the crew orbiting Earth on Thursday will prepare a Thanksgiving dinner of turkey, mashed potatoes, corn, green beans and cherry-blueberry cobbler.
During the six- to eight-month trip to Mars, space travelers will grow lettuce, spinach, carrots, tomatoes, green onions, radishes, bell peppers, strawberries, herbs and cabbage aboard their spacecraft.
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TOPICS: Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: food; nasa; space; spacefeasts; thanksgiving
They need to find a way to transport steak to Mars...
To: RightWhale; Brett66; xrp; gdc314; sionnsar; anymouse; RadioAstronomer; NonZeroSum; jimkress; ...
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posted on
11/23/2005 4:12:21 PM PST
by
KevinDavis
(http://www.cafepress.com/spacefuture)
To: KevinDavis
Martian Restaurant ad...
great food...
no atmosphere
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posted on
11/23/2005 4:14:09 PM PST
by
joesnuffy
(A camel once bit my sister...necessitating her untimely death..-Mullet Omar)
To: KevinDavis
What’s on the menu for future space feasts?
Hmmmmm.....
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posted on
11/23/2005 4:14:27 PM PST
by
RandallFlagg
(Roll your own cigarettes! You'll save $$$ and smoke less!(Magnetic bumper stickers-click my name)
To: KevinDavis
During the six- to eight-month trip to Mars, space travelers will grow lettuce, spinach, carrots, tomatoes, green onions, radishes, bell peppers, strawberries, herbs and cabbage aboard their spacecraft. I hope they take methane scrubbers with them.
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posted on
11/23/2005 4:14:46 PM PST
by
Moonman62
(Federal creed: If it moves tax it. If it keeps moving regulate it. If it stops moving subsidize it)
To: KevinDavis
There's no way to tell exactly what the first Martian colonists will eat, except that it will be Chinese food.
To: KevinDavis
We'll probably have Star-Trak-like nano-assemblers by then anyway, food will be built, not grown.
To: TaxesR2High; All
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posted on
11/23/2005 4:55:47 PM PST
by
KevinDavis
(http://www.cafepress.com/spacefuture)
To: KevinDavis
Maybe before they take the trip they need to launch an unmanned craft or two with supplies for the return trip.
Land it or keep it in orbit and have the ship dock in orbit - then transfer supplies and jettison it and head back.
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posted on
11/23/2005 4:58:26 PM PST
by
flashbunny
(To err is human. But to really screw something up, have the government try to fix it.)
To: KevinDavis
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posted on
11/23/2005 4:59:49 PM PST
by
mewzilla
(Property must be secured or liberty cannot exist. John Adams)
To: Moonman62
Good point, I have often wondered who/how NASA tests food for the FQ, (Flatulence Quotient)
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posted on
11/23/2005 5:05:31 PM PST
by
Not now, Not ever!
(This tag-line is temporarily closed for remodeling)
To: KevinDavis
"Tilapia eat human waste and are safe for human consumption afterward." I like Tilapia! But not anymore ... (hurl)
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posted on
11/23/2005 5:44:40 PM PST
by
manwiththehands
(Happy Thanksgiving to our heroes in Iraq. God bless you and Godspeed. Come home safe.)
To: TaxesR2High
food will be built, not grown.
I'll have some more #4. please.
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posted on
11/23/2005 6:36:05 PM PST
by
tet68
( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
To: Moonman62
Methane is what they intend to use to power the spacecraft, although I had thought that the plan was to produce it from the Martian atmosphere
To: RandallFlagg
I'd steer clear of her. She's a Cylon v 2.0
To: flashbunny
Phobos will be the site of the first Mars base.
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posted on
11/28/2005 9:14:17 AM PST
by
RightWhale
(Repeal the law of the excluded middle)
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