Launchpad: Space Food

In this NASA video segment you will learn the importance of food choice, preparation, and packaging for crewed space exploration. During space travel, astronauts need safe, palatable, nutritious food that can also be packaged compactly. Food plays an important role in helping counteract an astronaut's bone loss, fluid shift, and motion sickness while in space.

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Education

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• NASA
• eClips
• Launchpad
• NIA
• aviation
• space
• food
• operations
• astronauts
• physiology

[mariibogart]

@Risperdalman what in the world are you talking about?

[henik9]

The hell does that even mean?

[McFlanker]

How come they don't use anabolic steroids to prevent bone and muscle wasting?

It's a common medical treatment on earth, why not in space?

[KatiushaVN4]

how about a bag of hot noodle soup?

[Risperdalman]

when you land on the moon. you must too see around you and under you . the food must be all flower and every 30 min you must eat some thing. if you want that you don't have problems in your body all you need is body angry and the body will be the same. on the moon there is life but under. 79067.090 deep. like an old bus. on the moon you must even look at some strange thing. alien like the moon because they eat from moon . i mean under the moon is fool of food flower. take care.