Deep Space Food Challenge: NASA Offers $1 Million for Innovative Systems to Feed Tomorrow’s Astronauts

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[House Atreides]

Door Dash!

[bigbob]

Spam! Wonderful Spam!

[rbg81]

Soylent Green

[PIF]

3-D printing from basic proteins and vegetable stocks.

[WLusvardi]

NASA better invent a way for so-called astronauts to travel beyond the Van Allen Radiation Belt that circles the earth first before advertising space exploration. There has never been any travel to the moon or anywhere else by humans (Moon landing was faked).

[Rurudyne]

Lawyers! Thin ones anyway.

[higgmeister]

Paging Elon Musk to the white courtesy phone.

[JBW1949]

Tang and granola bars!!!!

Gimme some money!!!!!!!!!

[Telepathic Intruder]

I’ve actually put a lot of thought into this. And I have no freaking clue.

[plain talk]

LOL

[jmcenanly]

Just so long as it isn't just potatoes.

[V_TWIN]

[GrandJediMasterYoda]

NOOOOOO!!!

[Telepathic Intruder]

Exactly. How could Buzz have played the banjo on the moon if there is no air for sound waves to travel through? Duh.

[Doctor Congo]

This is for a 3 year space mission while always on the spaceship.

Requirements would be very different for food generation on a planet, like Mars. I would rather work on the Mars scenario.

[I want the USA back]

Fake methods of producing something to eat will fail. Food on Earth contains energy that can be traced back to photosynthesis, and ultimately to the energy of the Sun.
You don’t have that in space. You can simulate that in space. You can use your power system to provide electricity to Grow Lights, such as those used to grow plants on Earth during the winter or inside.

Above all, don’t do things like growing meat in test tubes. Grow plants with grow lights. Use the same grow lights to provide an environment for animals. Raise animals. Do with the animals what you do on Earth.

I know they won’t do any of the things that I said.

[GOYAKLA]

Get the book “How to Serve Man”, Author Rod Sterling!
Send the reward to Free Republic.

[lgjhn23]

My mother went to her grave believing the whole moon landing thing was fake. God bless her poor departed soul.

[lgjhn23]

Reprocessed Brandon diapers...yeah, that’s the ticket!!! /s