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As NASA plans missions to the Moon and Mars, a key factor is figuring out how to feed crew members during their weeks, months, and even years in space.

The crew, set to launch in 2024, includes the first woman and first person of color to be sent on a lunar mission. 

Crew members of Expedition 64 aboard the International Space Station tackled a list of to-do items that took them outside the airlock Saturday. During maintenance on an external cooling system, the astronauts had to take extra safety precautions after possibly getting toxic ammonia on their suits. Victor Glover and Mike Hopkins had no trouble removing and venting a couple of old jumper cables to remove any ammonia still lingering in the lines. But so much ammonia spewed out of the first hose that Mission Control worried some of the frozen white flakes might have gotten on their suits. Hopkin...

Amara mustard and extra dwarf pak choi plants for the Veg-03 botany study, the space agency informed even as "Noguchi watered fast-growing plants used for traditional medicine and food flavouring for the Asian Herb investigation." Watch: "NASA astronaut Mike Hopkins’ enthusiasm for learning to grow plants in space has proven fruitful for the agency’s Vegetable Production System (Veggie)," the agency said in its blog. The Expedition 64 crew member had arrived at the ISS in November last year aboard NASA’s SpaceX Crew-1 for a six-month science mission. Hopkins initiated two experiment...

SpaceX Cargo Dragon makes historic first undocking FacebookTwitterEmail The SpaceX Cargo Dragon makes history being the first supply ship undocking without a crew from the International Space Station.Screenshot Twitter/Space.com SpaceX's Cargo Dragon made history this week with the first-ever undocking from the International Space Station (ISS) by an uncrewed U.S. supply ship. NASA TV showed live views of the historic event as SpaceX's CRS-21 Cargo Dragon autonomously left the ISS station carrying returning experiments, according to Elizabeth Howell with Space.com. "Godspeed, Cargo Dragon and...