Presentations
Space Food Gallery-
Source: NASA Format: Microsoft PowerPoint
View Part 1, Part 2 online or Download Part 1 (10 Mb), Part 2 (10.4 Mb)
Nutrition in Space
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Source: Bob Phillips, Colorado State University Format: Microsoft PowerPoint
View the online version or Download the file (12 Mb)
Food and Nutrition Lecture Notes
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Source: Bob Phillips, Colorado State University Format: Microsoft Word
Download this file (136 kb)
Still Images
Bread from Apollo
Source: NASA
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View the image (96 kb)Description: This image shows prepackaged bread slices from the Apollo flights. It corresponds to the reference to Picture 1 in the Food and Nutrition lecture notes. (Posted on 10/00)
Eating a Meal on Skylab
Source: NASA
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View the image (96 kb)Description: This image shows astronaut Dr. Joe Kerwin eating a meal on Skylab. It corresponds to the reference to Picture 3 in the Food and Nutrition lecture notes. (Posted on 10/00)
Beverage from Apollo
Source: NASA
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View the image (96 kb)Description: This image shows an Apollo squeezable drink container, which could contain water or juice. It corresponds to the reference to Picture 5 in the Food and Nutrition lecture notes. (Posted on 10/00)
Astronaut in the Shuttle Galley
Source: NASA
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View the image (128 kb)Description: This image shows Shuttle Astronaut Dr. Rhea Seddon using the Shuttle hand washing facility next to the galley located on the Space Shuttle middeck. It corresponds to the reference to Picture 7 in the Food and Nutrition lecture notes. (Posted on 10/00)
Astronaut Preparing Meal
Source: NASA
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View the image (128 kb)Description: This image shows Shuttle Astronaut Dr. Rhea Seddon preparing a meal in the Space Shuttle galley. It corresponds to the reference to Picture 7a in the Food and Nutrition lecture notes. (Posted on 10/00)
Cosmonaut Meal, 1970s
Source: NASA
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View the image (96 kb)Description: This image shows a Russian cosmonaut meal using squeeze tubes, circa 1972. It corresponds to the reference to Picture 10 in the Food and Nutrition lecture notes. (Posted on 10/00)
Cosmonaut Drinks, 1970s
Source: NASA
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View the image (96 kb)Description: This image shows Russian cosmonaut beverage packages, circa 1972. It corresponds to the reference to Picture 12 in the Food and Nutrition lecture notes. (Posted on 10/00)
Space Shuttle Condiments
Source: NASA
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View the image (160 kb)Description: This image shows Space Shuttle condiment kits for personalizing foods, circa 1993. It corresponds to the reference to Picture 14 in the Food and Nutrition lecture notes. (Posted on 10/00)
Space Shuttle Drink Container
Source: NASA
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View the image (192 kb)Description: This image shows early Space Shuttle era drink container components, which would be rehydrated at the galley by injecting water with a syringe needle. It corresponds to the reference to Picture 17 in the Food and Nutrition lecture notes. (Posted on 10/00)
Proposed Space Station Menu
Source: NASA
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View the image (128 kb)Description: This image shows a proposed typical Space Station daily menu. It corresponds to the reference to Picture 21 in the Food and Nutrition lecture notes. (Posted on 10/00)
Shuttle Food from France
Source: NASA
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View the image (224 kb)Description: This image shows French thermostabilized food item for the Space Shuttle: Lobster and rice pilaf. It corresponds to the reference to Picture 22 in the Food and Nutrition lecture notes. (Posted on 10/00)
Russian Cosmonaut Food
Source: NASA
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View the image (128 kb)Description: This image shows Russian cosmonaut food, bite size non-crumbing bread, circa 1972. It corresponds to the reference to Picture 27 in the Food and Nutrition lecture notes. (Posted on 10/00)
Lunar Outpost Facility
Source: NASA
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View the image (160 kb)Description: This image shows a hypothetical artist's concept of a lunar outpost facility that includes several levels of the structure devoted to food crop growth including animal protein production and oxygen and water recycling. It corresponds to the reference to Picture 35 in the Food and Nutrition lecture notes. (Posted on 10/00)
Current Shuttle Provisions
Source: NASA
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View the image (192 kb)Description: This image shows some foods currently available on Space Shuttle flights. They include in this case starting from the top in a clockwise fashion: thermostabilized pouches and thermostabilized cans, (The foods in these containers would be typical of canned or packaged dinners that can be purchased here on Earth. They have been heated to destroy potentially harmful bacteria. They can be stored at ambient temperature.); rehydratable food, in this case scrambled eggs (Hot water would be added prior to eating.); natural foods, in this case peanuts; semi-moist foods, in this case dried apricots; drink container to be rehydrated with cold water. It corresponds to the reference to Picture 43 in the Food and Nutrition lecture notes. (Posted on 10/00)
Intensive Wheat Growth
Source: NASA
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View the image (192 kb)Description: This image shows intensive wheat growth in the environmental chamber at Kennedy Space Center. Differing conditions of light, temperature, carbon dioxide concentration, water and nutrient availability can be monitored and changed to determine what optimal growing conditions will be under very intensive and closed circuit cultivation as would be necessary on a lunar or Martian settlement. It corresponds to the reference to Picture 47 in the Food and Nutrition lecture notes. (Posted on 10/00)
Salad Machine
Source: NASA
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View the image (128 kb)Description: This image shows a plan for growth of sprouts to contribute at least small quantities of fresh food for dietary variety. Seeds are placed in empty food containers and water is added to initiate growth. This represents the beginning of what may become a "salad machine" capable of providing fresh food to astronauts during long missions. It corresponds to the reference to Picture 49 in the Food and Nutrition lecture notes. (Posted on 10/00)
