Show The Herald Journal Logan Utah Friday November Csotidtoeira mraaCtes K Space astiiroiraaiiiiti mraeaOs SPACE CENTER Houston — Vickie Kloeris knows how to prepare a Thanksgiving turkey that's out o f this world As manager of NASA’s Space Food Systems Labora- tory she and her staff spend ftastiy f AP) ' “ ' 'their days developing testing and packaging meals for astronauts The goal: variety nutrition and flavor No more ' dry meal cubes especially during the holidays So when astronaut Michael Foale and cosmonaut Alexan- ' der Kaleri open their meal " packets on Thanksgiving Day they will find turkey and all the fixings! even as they orbit 240 miles above Earth aboard the international space station " ' Will it taste like a home- - cooked meal'? Almost! “It's good It doesn't taste a Jot like a fresh carved turkey but you can't do that in a pouch” Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield said Wednes- day after sampling some of the food ' At first look the food — which can be freeze dried or " thermostabilizeda process similar tocanning — is hot the most appetizing sight The presentation — in clear or sil- ver pouches — is a bit sterile and the food can resemble the brownie cubes and chocolate pudding in a tube that during the Mercury and Gemini programs pf the! 1950s 'and 1960s ate' But once the meals are ' rehydrated with'water or heat- ed they taste surprisingly - astro-nau- ts good ’ Foods like shrimp cocktail ' -the most requested item by astronauts — or green beans and mushrooms or split pea soup have the look flavor and thickness of items eaten at any restaurant Better yet the food - ! - remains good in thepackages for up to two to three years " ’‘We want foods with lots of texture and different colors”! said food scientist Donna Nabors! wearing ai white coat and plastic gloves as she pre-- pared a large tray of shrimp i fried rice in the lab's kitchen? dish prepared with' ' ' Water chestnuts ' peas cariots and various spices was placed in a machine resembling a large clothes dryer for a five- -' jng process day freeze-dr- y ' 1 : " :-'The - V ! AP photo - Canadian Astronaut Chris Hadfield tests some rehydrated chocolate cake with journalists as NASA Food Scientist Vickie Kloeris back waits for a reaction in the Space Food Systems Laboratory at lab is where the Johnson Space Center on Wednesday-ThAmerican half of the food for the International Space Station is prepared '' ' important part of an astro-naut- ’s ' daily routine ' “There's lots of good food ' At meal timeyou look forrward to it” he said Space station crew mem- bers who have three meals ai : ' day plus a snack heatup some of their food in a warmer that looks like a silver : - 'suitcaseEach meal Costs an average ' ' of $I00 mostly due to pack- ' aging apd testing KloerisMmm gruel: An example of said It can take six to eight Russian freeze dried food' months for the lab to develop -Buckwheat Gruel was on dis- - ' md test a new food item In the last three years the play forjournalists at the Space! Food System Laboratory at lab has developed 50 new! Jphpson" Space ! Center-- in ' items but as with any cook v’ and kitchen there are culinary Houston ori Wednesday : ! - : - " : jri' ! ' v : - meal cycle Theirmenu cho- ' serf from a list Of more than 250 food items' is splitThen it will be vactium sealed between American and Russ- - v ' ian food! in individual serving pouches ' Lt Col Liwrei “We don't want them to the Yang : suffer from menu fatigue'! first man China sent to space te she said “More variety on the ate Such things as ' ' ' ? menu is something we' ve nuggets of spicy shredded ' station from crew heard every porx diced chicken and fried rice during his brief flight last that has returned It helps ’! them psychologically"month: ' misHadfield said on is meals of a longer variety Having ' sions like living aboard the important to the astronauts " Kloeris said Astronauts on the space station for several ' : months food can become an space station have a y - ’ onp-bi- : 10-da- Continued froin A14 S5 million from the fund in January: Joe Lieherman V aroUnd S4 million: Dennis Kucinich roughly S33 mil- -' lion: and Lvndon LaRouche ' j up tp $85d"(X)0 their refunds — to the presiAl Sharpton and Carol dential matchinjg fund The Moseley Braun are expected ' to get a few hundred thousand program frequently runs short oilcash dollars from the fund initially Candidates typically make if they take part the FEC up the “matching fund” shortfalls with loans while waiting John Edwards' campaign for the fund to be replenished declined to provide an estj- That costs the campaign extra mate The FEC projects that in interest payments : based on his fund raising In the 2000 primaries can: through September the period didates received about 50 covered by the latest cam- cents of every dollar they paign finance reports the were entitled lo in January! North Carolina senator w ill be n compared to about 60 cents on eligible for at least $32 the dollar in 19 If Edwards accumulates ' Dean's departure alone had rriatchable donations at the a major impact The former same pace this quarter as he Vermont governor wbo has has previously he wriuld get a done particularly well drawing first payment in the £4 million donors would '’range' have been entitled to at least Together it appears the can$15 million from the program didates will initially be cligi- had he stayed in the FEC estiMe for roughly $23 million in mates matching hinds The FEC estiWesley Clark is expected to mates the fund w ill have about $182 million to give out in get one of the biggest initial January: a February shortfall payments — roughly $55 million if malchaNe donations is also expected as the procontinue coming in at the pace gram waits for tax returns to they have been The Clarit replenish die fund Noble said that while bigger campaign estimates he will haw raised about $155 milinitial payouts are a plus lion by year's end roughly 44 Democrats taking the public percent of it matehaNe money would probably prefer According to rough estitaking out larger loans to facmates from other campaigns ing primary rivals operating Dick Gephardt will get about outside the system misfires 'A swordfish dish prepared with g tomato sauce proved ' Unpopular with many' astro- V nauts ' ' ' “One of the complaints that crew membershave aboui fish on orbit is (he s'mell We ' thought maybe the foniato sauce Would mask the smell” Kloeris said' The astronauts said it made it worse she: said-- ' “We haven't given up on fish but we have to come up with a different formulation” she said' ! : That's because Dean Kerry and Bush aren't bound by the te spend- 'System's ing caps or its overall $45 million spending limit Campaign watchdog groups! have urged them to abide by state-by-sta- the program's limits anyway only Kerry plans to do so and only by the overall limit esti-mat- es Tears Continued from A14 : mil-lio- small-doll- ar silena about his son's death ' in anew book Bush's eyes watered during his inauguration and while he spoke of the Sept II attacks a few months later from the Qval Office Stoicism was the standard for generations of American politicians many of w hom kept physical and emotional troubles under wraps but Watergate and Vietnam left Americans wanting to about the inner workings of their leaders Presidencies are more personal now that primary voters — not party systems of old — choose nominees “These tw o things have put the puMic in a fusition where they really' want to know” what makes their leaders tick Renshon said “The candidate handlers have picked up on this need” know-mor- e C23T AYA2J3&I CC7Y i 21 2003 — A15 |