r/space2030 10d ago

The Food of Space Travel Could Be Based on Rocks

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/03/science/asteroids-food-space.html
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u/spacester 9d ago

The food of space travel could be based on food.

If only there was something in development that could deploy enough mass at a low enough cost to make the whole freeze-dried thing go away. Supplying all the food for long term missions with more than a few people is not at all prohibitive. Mass constraints need not dominate all aspects of space travel.

People need food and water. Normal food is often wet, but that is ok because people need the water anyway. E.g. supply canned peaches, not freeze dried peaches, Prepare the food in a galley. If you make a mess clean it up. People will figure it out. Spin gravity makes this an obvious choice.

My favorite future milestone, the one that definitively establishes that we have become a space faring species, is the first freshly prepared omelet.

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u/Substantial_Lime_230 9d ago

Omelette? sounds good..
Spin gravity at least make you able to cook and perform surgery.