NASA called on to help trapped miners

Telegraph : On behalf of 33 miners who have been trapped some 700 meters underground in Chile since 5 August, officials sought advice from NASA. The men were caught in a passage by a rock collapse in the San Jose gold and copper mine. Likening the cramped quarters to those experienced by astronauts on the International Space Station, Chilean health ministry officials contacted NASA for technology and rations that could help keep the miners alive and healthy, because it could take as long as four months to dig an escape shaft.