Maggie Coblentz

you know, the second version of yourself on earth.

And they wanted the twin who did not get to go to space to have eat the identical menu to his brother.

And he said, absolutely not.

There is no way.

If I'm not going to space, there is no way you're forcing me to eat that food.

So there were some gaps in the being able to understand like what really happens to the body with this diet.

But I think that they're heavily monitored and encouraged to eat

specific things.

And each meal lists the calories that I'm sure is customized for the astronaut and their body type.

And they would do lots of different testing on earth before they went to space to understand their metabolism and working with nutritionists and different consultants, which I think can be quite frustrating.

Food is so personal.

Right.

How do we give autonomy to human beings in space?

How do we let people make decisions around their own

health and well-being in an environment that's incredibly controlled because you have to jump through all of these hoops, so much bureaucracy, so many safety protocols, which I sometimes call these excuses.

And how can we find ways around that that include a bit more personality or something different?

And that's incredibly exciting.

I just think the level... And this isn't necessarily an excuse.

I think a lot of this very much is legitimate and necessary.

Designing the experiments, I had to log every detail to the type of ink that was in my pen that I was using to label, to the glue, the precise tape that I was using.