Scott Solomon

And they smuggled in an onion.

And it was the first ever birthday that a person had in space.

And they gave this cosmonaut an onion for his birthday.

Yep.

Contraband onion, no less.

Legal onion.

Yep, yep.

But the point is people really get excited about any kind of fresh produce that you can have.

We have not made major advances in our ability to

to grow large amounts of food in any sort of space environment.

This is something that people are actively trying to work on.

They have grown plants on the International Space Station, but at very small scales.

And the astronauts tend to get really attached to those plants.

And so, you know, we think that's going to be a major limiting factor in our ability to go deeper into space is what are we going to eat?

You know, people, nobody wants to go

And eat, you know, canned food, packaged food for years at a time without, you know, mixing it up with some fresh food.

So that's another one of the challenges.

I think it does.

So I think we should expect that people are going to be exposed to higher radiation, even if they're living in some kind of an environment that's trying to shield, block that radiation.

Yeah, I mean, even if you built a fully radiation-proof enclosure that you could live in on Mars, who wants to go to Mars and never go walk around outside, right?