Four Month Mars Food Study Wraps Up

After four months in a mock space habitat in Hawaii, participants in a study to determine how best to feed astronauts (HI-SEAS) on a mission to Mars emerged yesterday. A few days ago, the mission commander was interviewed in Astrobiology Magazine, noting the most successful foods: "There's also been a lot of really good cooked dishes. Some of our crew members are accomplished cooks, and every week there are different surprises. Some success meals were Russian borscht, Moroccan tagine, enchilasagna, seafood chowder, and fabada asturiana. Wraps work really well: we combine tortillas, different vegetables, Velveeta cheese, and sausage or canned fish into ever-changing combinations. This is actually in line with the success of tortillas at the ISS. In general, the dehydrated and freeze-dried vegetables are a real success. They're used on a daily basis in almost every meal." The crew kept weblogs, and did other things than just sit around and eat: some studied robotics and they went on a few simulated EVAs.

Comments

Did they try this?

[bluegutang]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_(chocolate_bar)

Re:Did they try this?

[oodaloop]

They're just called chocolate bars there.

Re:Did they try this?

[RivenAleem]

I lived with a Frenchman for a while and I was making French toast for breakfast once and I asked him what they call it in France. He told me he'd never heard or seen this food before. I asked him why it was called French toast then, and with dead seriousness he replied, "Probably to make it sound better."

Quite a food lineup

[P-niiice]

Really, they're thinking about Velveeta? For Burritos? On Mars? In an Airtight bubble?

Bear Grylls

[invid]

Why are they wasting time with all these studies? Just send Bear Grylls, he'll find some way to survive.