Houston, we have a podcast. Welcome to the official podcast of the NASA Johnson

Space Center. This is episode 43 Diet Like an astronaut. I'm Dan Hewitt and

I'll be your host today and on this podcast we bring in the experts

NASA scientists engineers astronauts anybody who can let you know about the coolest stuff

going on right here at NASA.

Today we're talking about nutrition in space.

More specifically, what the astronauts have to eat

to stay healthy and functional during long duration spaceflight.

There's a lot of folks working on that right here at the NASA Johnson

Space Center including my guest Dr. Scott Smith and NASA nutritionist and the

manager for nutritional biochemistry.

There are some pretty significant differences in the way astronauts have to eat in space

versus the way we eat here on Earth, and so we sat down to learn more about what the body needs to thrive in space

and how we're preparing to tackle some big challenges for future long-duration

missions into deep space. So with no further delay, let's go light speed and jump right ahead to our talk with Dr. Scott Smith.

Enjoy. P-Mina-T-minus-I second, County.

Mark.

A-H-Mons-commit lights are correct Now here she goes.

Isn't we have a podcast.

All right, I'm here with Dr. Scott Smith. Scott you're the, can I call you Scott?

You can call me Scott.

Scott just for the sake of keeping things easy. So you're the manager and this is a mouthful

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