Synopsis
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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Details
- Running time
- 3 minutes
- Collection
- NASA
Subjects on the Internet Archive
- space food
- operations
- astronauts
- physiology
- aviation
- nutrition
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