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Around 400 kilometers above the Earth's surface, the International Space Station continues its orbit of the planet.

Since the first crew arrived in November 2000, more than 200 astronauts from 15 different countries have visited the ISS. At its core, it's a floating lab, where for six months at a time six crew members work, exercise, sleep -- and eat.

Providing NASA astronauts with a nutritious diet is the job of food scientists at the Johnson Space Center, in Houston. There, Maya Cooper is part of the team responsible for about 40 percent of the food sent to the astronauts. She says her team tries to strike a delicate balance between providing home comforts and healthy food.

"There are many items that we've had on the menu that were great tasting items but recently we've had a big sodium reduction, trying to get the sodium content on the space menu down," Cooper says. "So we've had to reformulate a lot of those items, preserving the taste and the homely comfort food aspects of the food, while making sure that the nutrition is right where we need for it to be."

If Cooper makes space food sound like a science, that's because it is. Weightlessness requires more energy; your body is never truly at rest at zero gravity, so astronauts must eat accordingly, consuming 3,000 calories a day.

In the controlled environment of the ISS, scientists are able to study the astronauts' physiological processes with great accuracy. "We know exactly what they're eating," Cooper says, "so we have better data in terms of how food actually impacts the body."

Likewise, food is affected by the requirements of space. Food sent into orbit has to be preserved by heat processing which, paired with its long-term storage, causes food to lose some of its nutritional value due to vitamin degradation.

Overcoming these obstacles is one of the challenges facing Cooper, along with how to make such adulterated food appetizing.

Meals through a straw?

Space food in popular culture ranges from liquid meals of various viscosities -- think Stanley Kubrick's "2001: A Space Odyssey" -- to a miracle pill containing a day's worth of nutrition.

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UFODI: UFO De-Materializes On NASA ISS Live Feed 18.52pm 31/01/2015
International Space Station (ISS) Time and Date: 18.52pm UK Time - 31/01/2015 UFO Rising upwards on ISS U-Stream live TV materializes. What I first thought was the Moon appeared not to be!...

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International Space Station view from earth
International space station ,ISS passed over india at 01/02/2015 at 5.50AM.

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SSTV transmission from ISS RS0ISS International Space Station - Baofeng UV-5R
An example of SSTV (slow-scan television) transmission being received on a ham radio, 2m band (145800mhz). The signal has to be decoded with a software on a PC - used MMSSTV (coding PD180).

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ISS Hoax - The International Space Station Does Not Exist!
The International Space Station, just like everything else brought to us by NASA, is a Freemasonic hoax, a complete fabrication done with special effects, models, pools, zero G planes, and...

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NFL Super Bowl Message from 260 Miles Above Earth
International Space Station Commander Barry "Butch" Wilmore and Flight Engineer Terry Virts take a break from scientific research to watch Super Bowl XLIX from their sky box and orbiting laboratory...

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Game Over Professor Green Ft GETAWAY [SPACE STATION:SIRIUS]
Description: PROFESSOR GREEN: FT GETAWAY [FORT BLISS]

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Hard Night Out Professor Green Ft GETAWAY [SPACE STATION:SIRIUS]
Description: PROFESSOR GREEN: FT. GETAWAY [FORT BLISS] [SIRIUS OUTER SPACE CAMS:SPACE SATELLITE STATION NEWS]

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Not sun or moon
This isnt the sun nor the moon I know what it isnt but I donno what it is. opinions are welcomed California coast feb 1ST 2015 recording from 3am till 5am. Possible projection image from NASA...

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Russia Launches British Communications Satellite Into Space
For more WORLD NEWS "SUBSCRIBE" US MOSCOW, RUSSIA: Russia on Sunday carried out its first space launch of the year, using its commercial Proton rocket to send a British satellite into orbit....

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