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Posted on 04/22/2025 1:48:27 PM PDT by BenLurkin
Steak, mashed potatoes and desserts for astronauts could soon be grown from individual cells in space if an experiment launched into orbit today is successful.
A European Space Agency (ESA) project is assessing the viability of growing so-called lab-grown food in the low gravity and higher radiation in orbit and on other worlds.
ESA is funding the research to explore new ways of reducing the cost of feeding an astronaut, which can cost up to £20,000 per day.
The team involved say the experiment is a first step to developing a small pilot food production plant on the International Space Station in two years' time.
Lab-grown food will be essential if Nasa's objective of making humanity a multi-planetary species were to be realised, claims Dr Aqeel Shamsul, CEO and founder of Bedford-based Frontier Space, which is developing the concept with researchers at Imperial College, London.
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Lab-grown food involves growing food ingredients, such as protein, fat and carbohydrates in test tubes and vats and then processing them to make them look and taste like normal food.
Lab-grown chicken is already on sale in the US and Singapore and lab grown steak is awaiting approval in the UK and Israel. On Earth, there are claimed environmental benefits for the technology over traditional agricultural food production methods, such as less land use and reduced greenhouse gas emissions. But in space the primary driver is to reduce costs.
The researchers are doing the experiment because it costs so much to send astronauts food on the ISS - up to £20,000 per astronaut per day, they estimate.
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(Steak, mashed potatoes and desserts for astronauts could soon be grown from individual cells in space)
Yeah no thanks
But then, Foodsticks!!
“Lab-grown chicken” is not chicken. It’s trans chicken: a mass of cells that identifies as a chicken.
They should check in with McDonalds to find out how they make their slurry for McRib.
trans-chickens ARE women too!
Matt Damon already did it in “The Martian.”
Is Bruce Dern involved?
/Silent Running
> it costs so much to send astronauts food on the ISS
Doesn’t the same total mass still need to be sent up in the form of water and CO2? Plants don’t create food out of nothing.
If humans want to go to deep space the mass balance and for living space, feed, water, waste management, oxygen requirements due to physics will not allow for the taking of livestock. We will have to cultivate food and will also have to recycle every atom of our waste products into more food and water. That’s just how physics works we sit in the bottom of a huge gravity well.
“Doesn’t the same total mass still need to be sent up in the form of water and CO2? Plants don’t create food out of nothing.”
Water and CO2 are waste products the astronauts produce in bulk, you will need to recycle that right back to food. It’s a closed carbon cycle and also hydro cycle. The total mass needed is only what is in the whole cycle split up around its parts.
To Mars and back, carrying a 3 year supply of Ensure . . . per crew member.
Look at a steer, it’s 1800lbs on the hoof. Right off the bat half of that is inedible being bones, guts/gut content, tendons, and fat. What is edible is 450-500lbs of actual meat dressed out in primal cuts. You had to feed , water and get oxygen to that steer in a 10:1 feed ratio, tens of thousands of gallons of water and one lb of O2 per lb of live weight per day. It should be immediately obvious why we are never taking cattle to space. Or you take a biopsy of said steer grab some cells and put them in a tank with synthetic blood serum itself made in a tank by genetically engineered microbes feed, CO2,nitrogen,water and either H2 ,CO,or acetic acid any of those last three made with electrons via a electrochemical cell.
Steer cells plus synthetic blood serum grows and multipies those cells into chunks of protein at a near one to one ratio of input materials to output. It should be very very clear why this is the way NASA and everyone else will have to go.
Boffins have already grown , sugars, starches and lipids in tanks via microbes and electro cell inputs we call that food. Protein is the last component monogastric mammals need to function. Those four are what all good anywhere, everywhere is made of in various proportions.
*what all food anywhere, everywhere is made of in various proportions.
Now the rooster has sex with the hen. Who is having sex with the chickens?
Got on my nerves in that movie.
Well, tell the European Space Agency to get their personnel and their hardware together and send them over to Space X for transport.
The same type that would shower with 14 week chickens.
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