Food crisis on space station

Food is running so low aboard the international space station that flight controllers have instructed the two crewmen to cut back on calories - at least until a Russian supply ship arrives in about two weeks.

If anything goes wrong with the Christmas Day delivery, Nasa will have no choice, given the grounding of its shuttle fleet, but to abandon the station and bring the men home in January.

See, now, if NASA were a little more media savvy, they could exploit the situation by turning it into a reality TV show...call it, oh, Survivor: Raft of the Medusa. Why not? If reality TV is a tourism booster here on Earth, think of what it might do for space tourism...

Posted by T.L. James on December 9, 2004 09:20 PM