Astronauts must know to cook for missions to Mars

Trip to Mars would last five years. (Photo: Internet)

Manned Mars missions would require the astronauts knowledge of food and agriculture, as well as Astrophysics, must grow and cook their own food given the long duration of the trip, said Nasa's food systems laboratory.

"The greatest challenges that occur before the travel to Mars relate to the balance of weight, volume, resource utilization and acceptability of food," said Maya r. Cooper, scientific laboratory of food systems in Houston, Texas.

For travel to the international space station (ISS) astronauts traveling with 1.7 kg of food per person per day. However, for trips to the red planet of roundtrip, that could last for five years, that would mean 3.7 tons, which complicates the project from the logistical point of view.

"Now look at the possibility of developing a system biorregenerativo that includes the cultivation of food in space and the possibility of sending large amounts of products to the Martian Habitat," said Cooper.

These plans would require greater preparation and processing of food than the current system used in space shuttle and the ISS, orbiting the Earth.

First Manned Mars missions is expected to depart in early 2030, for what NASA is already considering ways of supplying food safe and efficient manner to the crew within its food technology project.

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