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Doesn't seem that hard a task to me. Lay in some ship's biscuit, bully beef, a few wheels of cheese, dried peas, sauerkraut, jam, tea, bacon, porridge, Bovril, tinned butter, tinned milk, powdered eggs, lime juice, beer, and an ample supply of rum* and and you're set.
Oh, and the shrimp cocktail, of course.
*Pemmican, cocoa and Kendal mint cakes will also be available for landing parties on Mars.
Food; Palatable and Nutritious, or Low Mass and Volume. Your choice.
ReplyDeleteThe trouble with space travel provisioning is that most "space food" ideas only work if you can disregard the human GI tract. Few such brainstorms have enough bulk or roughage to keep the astronaut healthy.
And let's not even talk about the, err, by-products. Those have to be dealt with, too.
Any way you look at it, humans are very inefficient components of a space vehicle. Unless, of course, you modify them...
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eon
In the sixties the Americans spent millions of dollars to develop food and packing which could be cooked and eaten in the space.
ReplyDeleteThe Russians did like every camper would have done. They took canned food with them to the space.
Having tasted both Russian canned food and NASA space food I can say the Russians won 6-0.
Ironmistress;
ReplyDeleteHaving also had both, I agree. And I don't even particularly like borscht.
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eon