Snacks was just a bad joke, but yes, if you run the life support mod it would be cool to get contracts that worked along side the mod. It would also be cool to have the life support mod in the stock game for hard mode. I like the idea of each company having their own story arc and their own objectives. That would make career mode much more satisfying for me. Rather than, like you said, lobbing stuff in to space for no apparent reason other than to fulfill a contract that whoever supplied will never mention again. I usually don't even waste crew members on the orbital station/land base contracts, unless I want to do some science while I'm there, as you only have to have a certain capacity for crew and don't actually have to have anyone in the vessel. It would be fine if I next got a contract for transporting crew to and from the vessel.