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Topic: Vegetarian astronauts?
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Mary13
Member Posts: 24
From: Vienna, Austria, Europe
Registered: Mar 2007
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posted 10-26-2007 04:31 PM
  
Hi,
that question may sound a bit strange, but I wondered whether there were there any vegetarian astro- or cosmonauts?Mary |
Jay Chladek
Member Posts: 2272
From: Bellevue, NE, USA
Registered: Aug 2007
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posted 10-26-2007 10:31 PM
I seem to recall reading that Kalpana Chawla may have been a vegitarian, or at least stuck to a specific diet with mostly vegetarian dishes during her two trips into space (including STS-107). Usually the NASA food preparation facility does a very good job respecting the astronauts wishes and balancing them with the dietary requirements for proper nutrition during spaceflight. So if there are other vegetarians in the space program, it shouldn't affect their mission selection, although I imagine there might be some interesting difficulties for dietary requirements on long term spaceflights aboard the ISS with the Russians supplying most of the food (which tends to favor more canned products, such as meat spreads). |
ColinBurgess
Member Posts: 2031
From: Sydney, Australia
Registered: Sep 2003
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posted 10-26-2007 10:55 PM
Janice Voss and TJ Creamer, for starters, although TJ is not altogether strict about it. |
Robonaut
Member Posts: 259
From: Solihull, West Mids, England
Registered: Mar 2002
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posted 10-27-2007 08:05 AM
quote:
Originally posted by ColinBurgess:
for starters.
But what about the main course and desert? Sorry Colin, could not resist that. Best wishes
Rob Wood | |
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