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March 5, 2013 02:54 pm PST

Food, urine, and feces as radiation shield for Mars mission

The Inspiration Mars team planning to send a couple on a fly-by mission to Mars in 2018 have an idea of how to protect the astronauts from cosmic rays on the long journey: pack the walls of the spaceship with food, shit, and piss. "Dehydrate (the human waste) as much as possible, because we need [...]

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