Future long-term human exploration of space will need a supply of resources for astronauts,
including fresh food from space farms. This means it is necessary to identify combinations of …

Abstract Space exploration requires consideration of the dietary requirements of astronauts.
Not only do nutritional requirements differ in space versus Earth, but limitations to payload …

It is without a doubt that it may be impossible to keep resupplying food to crews on a one-
way mission on celestial bodies such as Moon, Mars, and Venus. It is therefore advisable …

Food and nutrition are critical to health and performance and therefore the success of
human space exploration. However, the shelf-stable food system currently in use on the …

This paper presents an optimized composition of crop growth areas for biological life support
systems with respect to nutrition and equivalent system mass. For this purpose, crop growth …

Food and nutrition have greatly influenced the effectiveness of space exploration missions.
With the development of technology, attention is now being paid more and more to …

There has been a reinvigoration of public interest in space exploration in what has been
deemed the new space race, which aims to eventually take humans to Mars in the 2030s …

Food systems and meal components are constantly under review and development at the
National Aerospace and Space Administration. The goal of this work is to generate a diet …

The possibility of prolonging space missions—and consequently the permanence of
humans in space—depends on the possibility of providing them with an adequate supply of …

Bioregenerative life-support systems for space have been investigated for 60 years, and
plants and other photosynthetic organisms are central to this concept for their ability to …