5 year NON-FROZEN food “adequate for Spaceflight”doesn’t exist. But if you simply bring a big freezer, the problem is almost trivial. Why don’t they normally do

5 year NON-FROZEN food “adequate for Spaceflight”doesn’t exist. But if you simply bring a big freezer, the problem is almost trivial. Why don’t they normally do that on ISS already? Fundamentally, MASS. Freezers are heavy (mass) and use a lot of power (mass). Fun fact, but SpaceX has launched ice cream in a freezer to ISS before. This isn’t hypothetical. See how many hidden assumptions there are which can be relaxed if mass constraints are relaxed? It’s just assumed freezers aren’t viable because they’re too heavy. There’s stuff like this all over the place. The entire field is built under the assumption that mass is extremely rare. Thanks for highlighting the point that big rocket solves these problems in almost a trivial way. (And what does blockchain have to do with it? Blockchain is simply a worse solution to a database problem.)