News: astronauts
What will astronauts eat on Mars?
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Forget rocket science: figuring out how crews of space explorers will access fresh healthy food is the real challenge.
Pills face harshest space test yet
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A batch of pills will be on its way into space where they will be placed on the outside of the International Space Station (ISS) to test how they withstand the full effects of zero gravity, extreme temperatures and some of the highest levels of radiation found beyond the Earth’s atmosphere.