{"id":96140,"date":"2019-09-12T20:02:43","date_gmt":"2019-09-13T03:02:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/09\/the-first-humans-sent-to-mars-could-need-to-3d-print-their-meals"},"modified":"2019-09-12T20:02:43","modified_gmt":"2019-09-13T03:02:43","slug":"the-first-humans-sent-to-mars-could-need-to-3d-print-their-meals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/09\/the-first-humans-sent-to-mars-could-need-to-3d-print-their-meals","title":{"rendered":"The first humans sent to Mars could need to 3D print their meals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-first-humans-sent-to-mars-could-need-to-3d-print-their-meals2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The current menu of space-friendly foods uses processing and water-reduction strategies to make these meals shelf stable. For example, a shrimp cocktail, mashed potatoes, and strawberries can be freeze dried; beef stew, candied yams, and brown rice can be thermostabilized; beef steak and turkey can be irradiated; and brownies, bread products, and beverage powders can be brought up in a low-moisture or dried form.<\/p>\n<p>As tasty as this feast sounds, this packaged food system does not meet the five-year shelf life required for a Mars mission, nor will it feed generations there in the years to come. How will space food therefore have to change if we are ever to colonize other planets?<\/p>\n<p>Using existing space technologies, it will take up to 32 months to travel to Mars. How can you feed a crew for that three-year trip?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The current menu of space-friendly foods uses processing and water-reduction strategies to make these meals shelf stable. For example, a shrimp cocktail, mashed potatoes, and strawberries can be freeze dried; beef stew, candied yams, and brown rice can be thermostabilized; beef steak and turkey can be irradiated; and brownies, bread products, and beverage powders can [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1489,1527],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3d-printing","category-alien-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96140\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}