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The Importance Of Making Sushi And Mozzarella On Mars

Thinking of everything, or a lot of things …

You might be surprised at how powdered milk, dehydrated kelp and shelf-stable chorizo can come together in ways that taste good — especially if you’ve been cooped up for a few months on a mission with five strangers on a desolate lava crater in Hawaii.

The mission, dubbed HI-SEAS (Hawaii Space Exploration Analog and Simulation), is part of a NASA study to figure out how to keep astronauts well fed during multiple-year missions to Mars or the moon.