Moore, a space nutritionist, partnered with NASA and SpaceX to send the first mushrooms into orbit.
With NASA aiming to send humans to Mars as soon as the 2030s and SpaceX’s Elon Musk aiming for as early as 2029, we are the closest we’ve ever been to achieving interplanetary crewed spaceflight. In ...
NASA astronauts Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore returned to Earth on March 18, 2025, after a nine-month mission aboard the ...
Months in space cause muscle loss, fluid shifts, kidney stones, vision issues, and balance problems after returning to ...
There’s just one thing: The meals are dehydrated in pouches ... Doctors for the space agency are closely monitoring the health and food intake of Wilmore, 61, and Williams, 59, after a recent ...
By the way, freeze-dried ice cream isn’t real astronaut food. Although the stuff was developed for NASA and even appears in the Apollo 7 press kit (PDF, page 83), it has never flown into space ...
Stranded in space for 9 months, Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore relied on a unique NASA diet. From pizza to freeze-dried meals, here’s what they ate in orbit.
When you think of space food, you might think of a very basic dehydrated or tube based meal that you have to quickly scoff before it floats away. In reality, the way astronauts eat and the variety ...