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.
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Door Dash!
Spam! Wonderful Spam!
Soylent Green
3-D printing from basic proteins and vegetable stocks.
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).
Lawyers! Thin ones anyway.
Tang and granola bars!!!!
Gimme some money!!!!!!!!!
I’ve actually put a lot of thought into this. And I have no freaking clue.
LOL
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.
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.
Get the book “How to Serve Man”, Author Rod Sterling!
Send the reward to Free Republic.
My mother went to her grave believing the whole moon landing thing was fake. God bless her poor departed soul.
Reprocessed Brandon diapers...yeah, that’s the ticket!!! /s
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