Potassium loss in space hits Apollo astronauts
Atlantic City based report notes astronauts James Irwin and David Scott faced reduced potassium in weightlessness during Apollo 15. Dr. Charles Berry cites 15 percent loss, caused irregular heartbeats and stress as spaceflight durations rise. Possible countermeasures include potassium supplementation and altered launch diets before longer missions.
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Menu fragment shows weekly school lunch items
A chaotic OCR style listing describes meals for several days. Wednesday includes tomato soup cheese buns celery carrot sticks mixed fruit and milk. Monday features a hamburger sandwich seasoned green beans potato chips fresh apple and milk. Tuesday offers beef and noodles whipped potatoes celery with peanut butter batter hot yeast rolls chilled apricots and milk.
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