Maya Cooper, right, a senior research scientist for Lockeed Martin, shows a vegetarian pizza developed for NASA's future mission to Mars. Years before the flight will lift off, scientists in Houston are trying to develop a menu that will keep the astronauts healthy, satisfy their other food-related needs and can be prepared in a zero- or low-gravity environment.
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Maya Cooper, right, a senior research scientist for Lockeed Martin, shows a vegetarian pizza developed for NASA's future mission to Mars. Years before the flight will lift off, scientists in Houston are trying to develop a menu that will keep the astronauts healthy, satisfy their other food-related needs and can be prepared in a zero- or low-gravity environment.

Astronauts' food: Make it 'to go'

By Ramit Plushnick-Masti
The Associated Press

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HOUSTON – Through a labyrinth of hallways deep inside a 1960s-era building that has housed research that dates back to the early years of U.S. space travel, a group of scientists in white coats is stirring, mixing, measuring, brushing and, most important, tasting the end result of their cooking.

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