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☆ NASA awarded $750,000 to a business that wants to feed astronauts fresh microgreens and insects
  + stars: | 2024-09-19 | by ( Jessica Orwig | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +5 min
Read previewNASA's Deep Space Food Challenge, launched in 2021, asked teams worldwide to develop a sustainable way to feed and nourish astronauts on long-duration space missions, including to Mars. The biotech company Interstellar Lab beat over 300 competing teams to receive NASA's $750,000 grand prize in August for its project NuCLEUS (NUtritional Closed-Loop Eco-Unit System). The software that controls the lighting, humidity, and temperature in each cube manipulates the environment to provide the optimal growing conditions for each plant's nutritional content. Interstellar Lab is launching one of its systems into space next yearPart of NASA's $750,000 award will go toward paying the team for their hard work. Interstellar LabWhile NuCLEUS was designed with NASA astronauts in mind, Belvisi said that Interstellar Lab is also working with private companies.
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☆ NASA looks to spice up astronaut menu with deep space food production
  + stars: | 2023-05-29 | by ( Steve Gorman | ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +6 min
[1/4] A team member from Interstellar Lab of Merritt Island, Florida, prepares Daikon Radish sprouts during NASA’s Deep Space Food Challenge Phase 2 prize announcement on May 19, 2023. The NASA-sponsored Deep Space Food Challenge prompted Sheehan to modify his invention as a way of producing edible proteins, carbohydrates and fats from the same system. TASTES LIKE ... SEITANThe resulting single-cell protein drink entered in NASA's contest has the consistency of a whey protein shake, Sheehan said. But the imperative for self-contained, low-waste food production requiring minimal resources has become more pronounced as NASA sets its sights on returning astronauts to the moon and eventual human exploration of Mars and beyond. Advances in space-based food production also have direct applications for feeding Earth's ever-growing population in an era when climate change is making food more scarce and harder to produce, Fritsche said.
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