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Listen to this article WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — For astronauts to go on long missions to the moon or Mars, they ll need a refrigerator. But today’s fridges aren’t designed to work in zero gravity – or upside down if oriented that way when a spacecraft lands on another planet. A team of engineers from Purdue University, Air Squared Inc., and Whirlpool Corporation is working on building a fridge for zero gravity that operates in different orientations and just as well as the one in your kitchen, giving astronauts access to longer-lasting and more nutritious food. In May, the team will test their fridge design on Zero Gravity Corporation’s (ZERO-G) unique weightless research lab. The only testing space of its kind in the United States, the specially designed plane will fly in microgravity dozens of times – for 20-second intervals – during each of four flights. Data from these flights, which are supported by NASA’s Flight Opportunities program,

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