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By Christina-Ariadni Valagkouti
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Feb 103 min read
Isolation Studies: Exploring Space by Going... Nowhere
What if I told you that some of the most important research for space exploration doesn’t happen in space, but deep underground, in...
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Jan 302 min read
Bed-Rest Studies: Pushing Boundaries By Doing... Nothing
What if I told you that some of the most important research for space exploration, and healthy aging happens while people lie in bed?
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May 31, 20243 min read
Experience Vault • Attending IAC, the World's Biggest Astronautical Conference
NASA astronauts Christina Koch and Jessica Meir have made history by completing the first ever all-female spacewalk. These icons, whose...
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Mar 20, 20243 min read
From Pixels to Plates: The Era of Space Gastronomy
Image by Robi313, CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0.0), via Wikimedia Commons (cropped) Travelling to unfamiliar...
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Oct 24, 20233 min read
Can Astronauts Grow Food In Space?
"It's hard to explore the galaxy on an empty stomach." That's not mine; that's a quote from a plant engineer and friend, which stuck with...
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Jun 27, 20233 min read
Experience Vault • Proposing a Study for a Space Mission
A space habitat like the International Space Station, whether actually in space or in a simulation - an analog mission, as it is called -...
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Jun 17, 20233 min read
Fuelling Hope: Diversity of Nutrition in Emergency Food Aid
When disasters strike, food aid becomes a lifeline for those affected. But it's not just about filling empty stomachs. It's about...
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May 10, 20234 min read
Beyond Beef: Alternative Protein for Nutrition in Extreme Conditions
Ah, yes, the calfnapping alien. Transporting a cow onto a flying saucer with a laser beam has become a very popular way to satirize alien...
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Mar 28, 20233 min read
Beyond Gravity and Borders: Space-Specific Culinary Traditions
When it comes to nutrition, there is always more to the story than just the science of nutrition. Food itself is relatively...
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Mar 13, 20233 min read
From the Cosmos, to the Crops
With all the buzz around environmental impact caused by modern agriculture, it's high time we start looking into sustainable solutions...
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Feb 21, 20233 min read
The Battle Against Nutrient Deficiencies
I wanted to start this article with a statistic, with the percentage of army professionals that are malnourished. I searched and...
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Feb 7, 20233 min read
Food Systems, But IN SPACE!
If Hollywood got one thing right, that's the practice of adding the word "space" to make a concept seem cooler. I mean -at least in my...
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Jan 21, 20233 min read
Houston, We Have So Many Problems
I've been asked many times if I would go to space, and I always reply that I wouldn't. Not for long at least. Truth is, I am terrified of...
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Nov 22, 20223 min read
Space Food Is Not That Special
If you don't get the hype about space exploration, you are reading the right article! Who cares about it anyway? The astronauts on the...
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Oct 7, 20224 min read
How Extreme Conditions Mess Up Your Metabolism
What irks me the most about nutrition science is how expensive and cumbersome precise measurements are. Luckily, they don't add much...
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Sep 18, 20223 min read
Motivated to the Extreme, Unmotivated to Eat
It surely takes a lot of motivation to train for years in order to sit on top of a very powerful bomb, that will take you into the most...
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Jul 7, 20225 min read
6 Earth Challenges that Space Food Can Solve
With all the challenges that Earth is facing today, is space exploration worth the trouble? I get asked this question very often; there...
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