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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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To: BenLurkin

Elon Musk will deliver ahead of schedule and below budget.


21 posted on 01/23/2022 12:46:34 PM PST by cpdiii (CANE CUTTER-DECKHAND-ROUGHNECK-OILFIELD CONSULTANT-GEOLOGIST-PILOT-PHARMACIST )
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To: Telepathic Intruder; WLusvardi

“Wouldn’t it be great to make everyone think we’d landed on the moon.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6MOnehCOUw


22 posted on 01/23/2022 12:47:18 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.)
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

Also, I thought Star Trek solved this??


23 posted on 01/23/2022 12:49:47 PM PST by rbg81
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To: jmcenanly
Garden domes. A ring of them around every craft.


24 posted on 01/23/2022 12:52:43 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.)
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To: BenLurkin

TANG!


25 posted on 01/23/2022 12:55:45 PM PST by DownInFlames (P)
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To: V_TWIN
Yep, my first thought, too. Did Bobby ever grow up to be an astronaut?


26 posted on 01/23/2022 12:58:20 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (81 million votes...and NOT ONE "Build Back Better" hat)
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To: Doctor Congo

That’d take a lot of pb&j.


27 posted on 01/23/2022 1:14:56 PM PST by bgill (Which came first, the vax or the virus?)
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To: WLusvardi

Get out the popcorn……


28 posted on 01/23/2022 1:16:47 PM PST by telescope115 (Proud member of the ANTIFAuci movement. )
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To: BenLurkin

I just watched a video that said beef liver is the most nutritionally concentrated food.

So lots of beef liver, onions and gravy.

You welcome space people.


29 posted on 01/23/2022 1:18:01 PM PST by DannyTN
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To: BenLurkin

Powdered freeze dried. Powdered to to save space. Shelf life 20+ years and freeze dried retains minerals, vitamins, and flavors very well. And you can even do icecream.


30 posted on 01/23/2022 1:18:10 PM PST by Openurmind (The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children. ~ D. Bonhoeffer)
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To: BenLurkin
Spinach Twinkies - they last forever.


31 posted on 01/23/2022 1:19:12 PM PST by GaltAdonis (As a nation of freemen we must live through all time or die by suicide. Abe Lincoln)
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To: rbg81

“Soylent Green”

That is the perfect solution.

Any crew members not needed for the return voyage (or who die due to in-flight “issues”) are fed to the soylent green machine.

These future missions have Donner Party written all over them.


32 posted on 01/23/2022 1:26:46 PM PST by cgbg (A kleptocracy--if they can keep it. Think of it as the Cantillon Effect in action.)
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To: lgjhn23

The strongest case supporting your mother’s views are available here—if you are interested—lots of lengthy articles by scientists and engineers and other professionals:

https://www.aulis.com/investigation.htm


33 posted on 01/23/2022 1:29:24 PM PST by cgbg (A kleptocracy--if they can keep it. Think of it as the Cantillon Effect in action.)
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To: cpdiii

Elon’s biggest problem right now is NASA.

He needs to fully decouple from them—now.

Here is one example:

https://qz.com/2046840/a-1-billion-space-suit-is-holding-up-nasas-2024-moon-landing/


34 posted on 01/23/2022 1:30:56 PM PST by cgbg (A kleptocracy--if they can keep it. Think of it as the Cantillon Effect in action.)
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To: BenLurkin

Captain, why does this food taste like poop?


35 posted on 01/23/2022 1:34:54 PM PST by ArtDodger
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To: WLusvardi

The ‘moon’ is just a giant spy satellite from which the various Elites spy on and control every aspect of our lives. Should things get out of hand they will merely leave ‘earth’ take up temporary shelter on their ‘moon’ base and wipeout all human life. After which will clone new and better humans and repopulate the Earth and return to rule again.


36 posted on 01/23/2022 1:37:45 PM PST by Kartographer (“We Mutually Pledge To Each Other Our Lives, Our Fortunes And Our Sacred Honor”)
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To: BenLurkin

A steady regimen of:

Balance of Nature
Relief Factor
My Pillows

...AND the promise of a cruise to the Holy Land with Dennis Prager upon return from Mars or wherever.


37 posted on 01/23/2022 1:42:56 PM PST by WeaslesRippedMyFlesh
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To: BenLurkin

Are those psilocybin mushrooms?


38 posted on 01/23/2022 1:44:09 PM PST by WeaslesRippedMyFlesh
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To: V_TWIN

39 posted on 01/23/2022 1:46:18 PM PST by Larry Lucido (Donate! Don't just post cliclicckbait!)
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To: BenLurkin

Simple: microwave, water, and ramen noodles.


40 posted on 01/23/2022 1:47:38 PM PST by Reno89519 (FJB. Respect America, Embrace America, Buy American, Hire American.)
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