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Mission to Mars: Food Production and Processing for the Final Frontier.
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PMID:  22136130     Owner:  NLM     Status:  Publisher    
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The food systems of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) have evolved tremendously since the early manned spaceflights of the 1960s. To date, NASA's mission focus has been limited to exploration of low Earth orbit (LEO), and the agency's prepackaged food systems have been adequate to enable success of their parent programs. With NASA's mission focus increasing to achieve manned space exploration of the Martian surface, the agency is considering a significant departure from the prepackaged food systems of current and past space programs. NASA's Advanced Food Technology (AFT) project is presently investigating the introduction of a bioregenerative food system to support long duration habitat missions to the Martian surface. A bioregenerative food system is expected to impart less of a burden on critical mission resources, such as mass and volume, than a prepackaged, shelf-stable system. This review provides an introduction to past and present spaceflight food systems, and provides a broad examination of the research conducted to date to enable crop production and food processing on the Martian surface. Expected final online publication date for the Annual Review of Food Science and Technology Volume 3 is February 28, 2012. Please see http://www.annualreviews.org/catalog/pubdates.aspx for revised estimates.
Authors:
Michele H Perchonok; Maya R Cooper; Patricia M Catauro
Publication Detail:
Type:  JOURNAL ARTICLE     Date:  2011-3-2
Journal Detail:
Title:  Annual review of food science and technology     Volume:  -     ISSN:  1941-1413     ISO Abbreviation:  Annu Rev Food Sci Technol     Publication Date:  2011 Mar 
Date Detail:
Created Date:  2011-12-5     Completed Date:  -     Revised Date:  -    
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Nlm Unique ID:  101561951     Medline TA:  Annu Rev Food Sci Technol     Country:  -    
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Languages:  ENG     Pagination:  -     Citation Subset:  -    
Affiliation:
NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX 77058; email: michele.h.perchonok@nasa.gov.
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