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

Posted on 01/23/2022 12:10:10 PM PST by BenLurkin

...NASA awarded 18 teams a total of $450,000 for their concepts for innovative food production technology that produces safe, acceptable, palatable, nutritious food products that are stable and high quality, while minimizing necessary resource inputs...10 international teams for their winning submissions. NASA’s supporting partner of the challenge, the Methuselah Foundation, sponsored two $25,000 awards to international teams...

NASA now invites both new and existing teams to enter Phase 2, which will require teams to build and demonstrate prototypes of their designs and produce food for judging. Interested participants from the United States can compete in Phase 2 for part of a prize purse up to $1 million.

The Deep Space Food Challenge asks competitors to create a food production technology, system, or approach that could potentially be integrated into a complete food system to sustain a crew of four on a three-year deep space mission. Everything needed to store, prepare and deliver food to the crew, including production, processing, transport, consumption, and disposal of waste should be considered. Proposed technologies such as plant growth systems, manufactured food products, and ready-to-eat solutions combined could provide the future crews with a variety of options that would provide the needed daily nutrition.

In Phase 1, NASA’s judges grouped U.S. submissions based on the food they envisioned producing. Among the designs were a variety of systems that ranged from complex to very simple. Teams proposed technologies to produce ready-to-eat foods such as bread, as well as dehydrated powders that could be processed into food products. Other technologies involved cultivated plants and fungi or engineered food such as cultured meat cells, all of which could be grown or produced by the crew on deep space missions. Details about the winning submissions and teams can be found on the challenge website.

(Excerpt) Read more at scitechdaily.com ...


TOPICS: Food
KEYWORDS: deepspacefood; nasa
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1 posted on 01/23/2022 12:10:10 PM PST by BenLurkin
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To: BenLurkin

Door Dash!


2 posted on 01/23/2022 12:12:04 PM PST by House Atreides
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To: BenLurkin

Spam! Wonderful Spam!


3 posted on 01/23/2022 12:16:42 PM PST by bigbob
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To: BenLurkin

Soylent Green


4 posted on 01/23/2022 12:16:56 PM PST by rbg81
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To: BenLurkin

3-D printing from basic proteins and vegetable stocks.


5 posted on 01/23/2022 12:17:17 PM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: BenLurkin

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).


6 posted on 01/23/2022 12:19:14 PM PST by WLusvardi
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To: BenLurkin

Lawyers! Thin ones anyway.


7 posted on 01/23/2022 12:19:31 PM PST by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: BenLurkin
Paging Elon Musk to the white courtesy phone.
8 posted on 01/23/2022 12:19:45 PM PST by higgmeister ( In the Shadow of The Big Chicken)
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To: BenLurkin

Tang and granola bars!!!!

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


9 posted on 01/23/2022 12:23:38 PM PST by JBW1949 (I'm really PC.....Patriotically Correct)
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To: BenLurkin

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


10 posted on 01/23/2022 12:24:42 PM PST by Telepathic Intruder
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To: WLusvardi

LOL


11 posted on 01/23/2022 12:26:46 PM PST by plain talk
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To: BenLurkin
Just so long as it isn't just potatoes.

12 posted on 01/23/2022 12:27:56 PM PST by jmcenanly ("The more corrupt the state, the more laws." Tacitus, Publius Cornelius)
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13 posted on 01/23/2022 12:34:20 PM PST by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave)
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To: rbg81
NOOOOOO!!!


14 posted on 01/23/2022 12:35:16 PM PST by GrandJediMasterYoda (As long as Hillary Clinton remains free, the USA will never have equal justice under the law)
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Exactly. How could Buzz have played the banjo on the moon if there is no air for sound waves to travel through? Duh.
15 posted on 01/23/2022 12:37:52 PM PST by Telepathic Intruder
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To: BenLurkin

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.


16 posted on 01/23/2022 12:40:43 PM PST by Doctor Congo
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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.


17 posted on 01/23/2022 12:41:19 PM PST by I want the USA back (Government is to be feared much more than the chicom virus.)
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To: BenLurkin

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


18 posted on 01/23/2022 12:41:20 PM PST by GOYAKLA
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To: WLusvardi

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


19 posted on 01/23/2022 12:42:14 PM PST by lgjhn23 (Pray for America....)
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Reprocessed Brandon diapers...yeah, that’s the ticket!!! /s


20 posted on 01/23/2022 12:43:28 PM PST by lgjhn23 (Pray for America....)
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