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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Tang was good stuff. Ranks up there with spiced apple cider as an instant drink.
Anyone else stay up all night to watch The Moon Landing? Mercury, Gemini and Apollo were during my elementary thru high school years and we were pretty much entranced and obsessed with everything space program. I think many if not most adults were as well.
Blast it though! I want some Tang!
See post #22
I am somehow reminded of Vladimir Voinovich’s novel “Moscow 2042” where true communism would be achieved when primary matter (food) equalled secondary matter (feces).
Macaroni & cheese cups.
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#51 I remember him beating a John Wayne lookalike with a shovel.... “Cowboy” ref.
Silent Running (1972)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZpnTy-78oyk
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