The Mars menu: This is not Buzz Aldrin's astronaut food
Wednesday, August 12, 2009 - 18:56
in Astronomy & Space
NASA must provide the crew with some 20,000 meals -- light, with a shelf life of five years. Scientists are experimenting with packaging and preservation, but so far, mac and cheese is out. Michele Perchonok sat contemplating a shrink-wrapped brick of freeze-dried mac and cheese just outside the test kitchen at NASA's Johnson Space Center.