Napoleon said that an army marches on its stomach and so, it seems, do astronauts. To help the crews of future Mars missions remain healthy, associate professor Dominic D’Agostino of the University of South Florida Hyperbaric Biomedical Research Laboratory will spend ten days on a simulated space journey in a laboratory on the bottom of the sea eating a special diet designed to counter the side effects of interplanetary spaceflight.
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