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What do you do when someone dies in space?
We'd love to tell you, but there's not really precedent.
Death among spacefarers has always been rapid and always consumed whole crews, so there's never been a situation where a few astronauts gather round a lost companion wondering what the appropriate mode of disposal is.
The result is that, aside from informing you that if you flushed them out the airlock they should be registered as a satellite (thanks, Registration Convention!),* we can say very little.
So while we had to drop a planned section on death in space, we did get interested in a related question while researching space food: the forbidden space meal.
The one option on a long Mars trip that is extremely fresh and contains precisely the nutrients a human body needs.
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What do you do when someone dies in space?
We'd love to tell you, but there's not really precedent.
Death among spacefarers has always been rapid and always consumed whole crews, so there's never been a situation where a few astronauts gather round a lost companion wondering what the appropriate mode of disposal is.
The result is that, aside from informing you that if you flushed them out the airlock they should be registered as a satellite (thanks, Registration Convention!),* we can say very little.
So while we had to drop a planned section on death in space, we did get interested in a related question while researching space food: the forbidden space meal.
The one option on a long Mars trip that is extremely fresh and contains precisely the nutrients a human body needs.
Source
