Green Plants for Mars Mission

An anonymous reader writes "NASA doesn't keep back that they are going to send a human expedition to Mars in a couple of decades. One of the obstacles for the longstanding 35-million-mile voyage is a food production. NASA researchers have focused on 20 plant species that NASA believes could be grown during a flight to Mars and after landing on the fourth planet from the Sun. By far not all of them are suitable for space expedition."

Comments

Canabis could be ...

[Anonymous Coward]

a good candidate for the mission. I guess travaling that far can be boring .

Spam spam spam spam!

[shawnywany]

Spam... Comes in a small can, and tastes great. As a good long-term food source, it's great--just ask me. The poor university student. :(

Food Source

[cyber_rigger]

Why can't we just eat at the Starbucks that will be there by the time we get there.

Re:Food Source

[Joe the Lesser]

Your right, it would be like NASA to buy a 7 dollar cup of coffee.

Re:Food Source

[JollyFinn]

What is this starbucks everyone seems to be talking about, restaurant? Coffeeshop?
I'm from Finland, I think I've never seen one.

I can see it now...

[ardustry]

...fifty years from now, we find that the only plants that would grow on Mars are ragweed and poison ivy.

Re: summary=story

[Black Parrot]

> wow that is such a fluff piece, it says that the actual information will be released later on, it doesn't mention the species of plants looked at

They don't want to scare off tommorow's potential astronauts with a long list of vegetables.

Plants that failed

[Dark Lord Seth]

• Palm tree: No palmtree-sized spaceships available yet. Adding 10 foot high skylight to craft inadvisable.
• Marijuana: Used up before launch by ground crew, causing crew to riot.
• Sugar cane: Last sugar rush of crewman Johnson cost us 3 million USD.
• Juniper berries: Crewman Richards managed to build a distillery out of a first aid kit, never mind what he can do with a spaceship.
• Experimental mold: Last batch got killed by the maid.
• Experimental mold mk2: Last batch killed the maid.
• Money trees: Waged war with Financing, lost the money trees.

Being stoned is pretty boring too

[Anonymous Coward]

Besides, where would they put the 2 tonnes of Cheetos required for the trip?

Nah, NASA would buy...

[lxt]

...a 1 cent coffee, and a $6.99 paper cup :)

Martha Stewart

[shubert1966]

The list posted above cannot possibly be correct. Maybe they should get Martha Stewart on this one. She's good with recipes and used to living in confined spaces.