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  • Farming on Mars: NASA ponders food supply for 2030s mission

    05/16/2013 10:15:24 AM PDT · by BenLurkin · 25 replies
    Space.com via CBS ^ | May 15, 2013, 10:30 AM | Clara Moskowitz /
    The first humans to live on Mars might not identify as astronauts, but farmers. To establish a sustainable settlement on Earth's solar system neighbor, space travelers will have to learn how to grow food on Mars -- a job that could turn out to be one of the most vital, challenging and labor-intensive tasks at hand, experts say. "One of the things that every gardener on the planet will know is producing food is hard -- it is a non-trivial thing," Penelope Boston, director of the Cave and Karst Studies program at New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, said...