May 2017
Recipe for success on flights to Mars
... but hasn’t ever flown to space. And space food sticks were mostly a commercial product attempting to cash ... Occasionally, the reality of space makes some of these activities and foods difficult. We didn’t have to deal with zero gravity, or ...
October 2015
Eating in space: from Michelin-starred chefs to self-sufficiency
... pizza still needs to go into the oven - meaning that besides the need to store sufficient quantities of processed food ‘inks’, cooking facilities need to be in place. Tests are at an early stage, and it’s possible they’ll lead to exciting results...
January 2016
Danish Surprise for ISS Crew
... one thing - no freeze drying. So it has to be real food. Thorsten Schmidt (left) and Andreas Mogensen planning the ISS meal Of ... both physically and mentally. It’s the way we interact with food, with each other and with our surroundings,” he states. ...
November 2016
Hi-tech greenhouse to test plant cultivation technologies in Antarctica
...FEG. In addition to technology development and validation, food safety and plant handling procedures will be developed. These...with slow release fertilizer) Reliable, safe and high quality food production (as the next step to the great achievements by ...
May 2017
Growing plants without gravity
... on mizuna leaves in spaceflight and analysis of the dietary characteristics showed that space-grown mizuna biomass conforms to food safety and nutritional content standards. Increases in the T-value, an index of overall air impurity on the ISS, did...
March 2016
The Use of 3D Printing for Space Applications
... technologies and can be applied to a wide range of materials ranging from metals, polymers and ceramics but also food, living cells and organs. Plastic printing arrived first, initially used for rapid prototyping purposes, but...
