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zooplankton

06/13/2018 / By Edsel Cook

Could the new type of food for astronauts be made from zooplankton? Biologists seem to think so

Provisions are among the biggest challenges for manned spaceflight missions. Food must not take up so much space or weight that the spacecraft’s performance suffers. In an Alpha Galileo article, therefore, German researchers suggested that spacecraft should carry zooplankton as a lightweight source of essential nutrients for astronauts. One potential candidate is the water flea (Daphnia), […]

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