Main Idea 3: Some people need dietary restrictions and de-restrictions to be able to live on space. Central Idea: Nutrition and high morale are crucial for exploration.

Main Idea 2: Astronauts need enough nutrients, similarly to those on earth, despite the microgravity conditions.

Why not cubes and mimics of drinks with artificial flavoring and sweeteners? The dangers of liquid are immense in space.

How to ovens work in space? Considering the zero-gravity conditions that the users need to endure.

Main Idea 1: There are a variety of ways to get food and nutrients into people in space.

Is there any other storage methods, and if so, why aluminum foil?

Which snacks are astronauts able to access?

Why in liquid form? Shouldn't they be kept solid to prevent spills and damages to machine hardware?

So they attempt to get the astronaut's favorite meals to boost morale?

There aren't any dry variants of food, and seemingly are intended for storage in fridges or freezers on the ISS.

How did they accomplish this?

Did the old variants of food still provide the same amount of nutritional value as the modern variant?

Judging by the amount of times food is delivered to the ISS per month (aka once per month), do they also include forms of plantation in order to grow food, or do they just pack enough for a month?

So they basically have a larger and much more important job than supplying oxygen, like forming a defensive layer for any debris, kind of?

So you die once you reach the 60 second limit? Huh, that's really terrifying because you're basically on a time limit to depend on your fellow crew members.

I'm really glad that spacesuits exist, otherwise we would not be able to go to space at all.

Assuming that the vapor is from, well, heat and the swelling is from thermal expansion, wouldn't the suits be designed with some cooling mechanism/fan to keep your body from expanding too far, but as well as keeping it from exiting the suit's boundaries?

The lack of shielding on your skin and the definite idea of dying from frostbite in space due to the lack of heating terrifies me.

From the lack of air within space, it's really dangerous to just, fly out into space without any regulative equipment nor any form of oxygen supply.

The suns rays are really powerful, and they can also release solar flares, so the suits are designed to survive them, right?

I thought it took 11 minutes, welp, false information from my part.

Huh, that's kind of surprising that they're going with that approach.

Considering the 11 minute delay between commands, is there some sort of A.I implemented to spot obstacles similarly to how the Boston Dynamic's robot dog can do so?

Percy does share some similarities with Curiosity, though the fundamental point is it's infrastructure.

That's really exciting to see the progression of.

Aviated mars colonies, perhaps?

They found a way to store solar energy into batteries? Suprising.

As I previously mentioned, they need to buff up the wingspan and minimalize size at this point.

How so? I'd generally expect gravity to be lighter considering the planet is much smaller and therefore makes a smaller gravitational pull on things around it, but eh.

Now that the first flight test has already happened, as well as the deployment of Perseverance, it kind of still fascinates me of how far we've come and how much research went into this idea.

The perspective kind of reminds me of Carl Sagan's quote, which I quoted on a different annotations, because we're just one spec, and yet we've 'conquered' black holes and discovered pictures of them, this truly is fascinating on how far we've come.

Surprisingly this has about the same amount of people working on it as the German V-2 Rocket.

Connecting it back to 'The Smithsonian History of Space Exploration', Space Exploration is kind of an effort for the entirety of mankind, not just a singular person, but uniting over a single topic is really difficult, but science and it's ideals is just that fascinating in my opinion.

Black holes colliding lead to larger black holes, right? So could the sound also be produced by the fusion of two?

Karl Schwarzschild is a really cool mathematician/physician, he literally came up with a solution to Special Relativity right before he died.

Considering the theory of relativity was built around space time being a fabric of sorts and every planet/interstellar object/celestial being had a weight, I think that an object with a 'infinite' amount of weight could be possibly theorized back in 1915.

Not being a single telescope taking pictures is much more reasonable and meets my general idea, though if it were to be a cluster in orbit that would be much better considering the range would perhaps be farther.

How large would Messier 87 be to qualify to be the largest discovered though?

Objectively I'd expect hubble to take a picture of it considering it's range, but I'm unsure if it actually got decommissioned or not.

One year? For the first mission? I was expecting 3 months of something atleast smaller than that.

Multiple skillsets really need to be aboard this mission, there's too many roles that need to be fulfilled, and I'm pretty sure the minimal amount of people that are going to be on mars is 5, and there are oh so many jobs that need to be done.

10 times more radiation is a stretch, so confinement kind of needs to be required for the astronauts to live, though that of it's own right is already another issue NASA is tackling.

That is a incredibly long list of gases, but the important thing about this is also the working conditions, perhaps. The suits need to be cleaned, rovers need to be cleaned and stayed within perimeter of the colony to prevent communication problems as well as loosing valuable pieces of technology from a measly dust storm.

I think maybe forms of entertainment would be available on mars, books, maybe handheld offline games, but books especially need to be on a mars mission, manuals are important for guidance when there's an 11 minute delay.

Now that I think about it, mars is a really hazardous location to be in, filters need to be monitored, suits need to be cleaned to prevent infestation, etc. etc.

I'm partially glad that they will openly adjust plans of separation and confinement because Mars is at least 30 times farther than the ISS and due to the lack of communication delay being about 11 minutes, it's partially necessary for every task to be fulfilled by the crew with no issues.

Applying the gravity and general effects of mars to an artificial being works, but how would you apply that to a biological person? By applying a person through simulation tests online to see if they can withstand Martian dust storms?

Wait, this also makes the vessels compressed which minimizes blood flow, so yeah, that's REALLY useful.

The medical standpoint of space exploration is particularly important in my standards, but there surprisingly is a drug for bone recovery as well?

I've never known that, actually. I mean objectively your vitamins and minerals need to be extended and 'modified' for space travel, so technically it could be an actual valuable asset?

I think the data would be INCREDIBLY valuable considering you just need to boost that by 3 times, though I think other symptoms would be in the equation of health risks due to the extended period.

Huh, considering this was released in 2015, nobody didn't really know about Artemis.

Don't cells die upon the movement of a limb, so technically you need a LOT of cells/rapid production to move, right?

Wait, how so?

Now that I think about it, simulated gravity through use of a cylindrical colony/space ship would actually work if you were to allow the cylinder to spin. Additionally, I'm pretty sure that's why people switch out from time to time on the ISS to avoid general health issues.

Vitamin deficiency due to distance away from the sun? Oh, and also dust storms could technically cover up the sun from providing you with nutrients.

I think these are hazardous because:

• Gravity fields attract so if you approach an object too much without propulsion, you're dead.
• Isolation could lead to loneliness, and eventual depression, which is something people don't want while in space of all places.
• Hostile environments could be a result of uncalculated landings, such as guns previously being in the pods for the ISS.
• Space radiation, self explanatory.
• Distance from earth, means that it'll take long if you're far to get back and forth, and if you're close, it'll be much convenient.

Now that I think about it, the Apollo crew and others had no decision on which groups they were apart of, or necessarily needed to establish relations with new people (which in my opinion, would be very hard.)

Not very simple to figure out, despite our current experience with space, aka the extended stay in space longest being I think around 3 years, which I'm pretty sure they did research on the effects.

Agreed, though weirdly enough, the Artemis program is officially starting in 2024, and there is already a lot of funding, luckily.

It's confusing that they continue to be delayed through lack of funding, but the dependence on other countries, regardless of how we started off space exploration being dependent with the country. But at least some independent support from themselves would be better.

Considering it was dramatically cut to 25% shows how much funding and how much encouragement and enthusiasm JFK had of the Apollo program, and I think nowadays without any inspirational value the cost was cut low.

That's minor fees per year, but the prices eventually stack up due to operation costs, and all that.

How did New Horizons, a simple machine made for literally going to PLUTO and needs to be built to withstand forms of environmental/intergalactic debris literally only cost 7,000,000, while Cassini, a machine just for investigating Saturn and eventually dived into it for a dramatic re-entry (no literally), that cost 3.3 billion, it's an even larger cost then Horizons, wow.

That is an incredibly dramatic difference for just 6 dollars more than the original amount.

I'm confused on how why they earned 3 trillion yet only provided .5 percent to a governmentally linked organization.

This quote kind of shows to me that you actually could theoretically buy happiness.

It seems as though many, and I mean MANY people are united by a single concept of space and generally the fascination of it, and I'm glad that we've made it, because there's still a lasting impact of inspiration on the onlookers.

Using the word came to a close is kind of unreasonable, there's still more things ahead of us, after all, since we've merely just crossed a decade long boundary.

This really puts into perspective how far humanity has come, from merely making up tales of green men from interstellar/celestial bodies, and now, look at us, we've reached the very end of the solar system and now we're traveling beyond it with the existence of the Voyager twins, the Pioneer twins, and New Horizons.

Voyager 1 and the other probes that have no other purpose than to go outside the solar system really kick a perspective into mankind, and to (indirectly) quote Carl Sagan, 'Many people have fought wars, killed, just for this small, blue dot in an endless expanse'

The Space Act does refer to the peaceful usage and non-weaponization of space, but I also originally thought that JFK was the starter to the fire/career that is space exploration, so it's partially surprising. Also, I'm pretty sure the predecessor of NASA was the one created, aka NACA.

Sputnik kind of served as the disaster to the entire idea of space exploration, think about it. Sputnik was the VERY FIRST big step within the territory of space exploration, and is a even larger deal than rockets, forms to exit the atmosphere and enter earth's orbit, etc.

This most likely is true considering the contributions the space agency and generally the ideal of space exploration has given us, take for example photographic imagery and geologic structures on maps, but also tidal maps, wind maps, temperature maps, and I think also weather maps.

Considering the multitudes of landers that have landed on mars to conduct experiments upon the soil, rocks, and land, I think that those are basically the labs that this article has been talking about, considering inflatable habitats have not been established and we haven't even landed on the moon for real yet, or at least haven't established a colony.