January 2023
Producing food in space
...level. We cannot be a truly spacefaring species until we can produce the food we need in the vacuum of space. In order to go further into ... mineral nutrients to grow in a bioreactor. Solar Foods has also designed a Solein production unit concept that ...
06 March 2019
Growing food from thin air to feed astronauts
... for such a mission. How do you pack on board enough food to sustain everyone for at least a year or more, without... Business Incubation Programme (BIC), Solein could become a staple food supplement for Mars-bound spacecrafts. “The conditions in Mars ...
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...
February 2023
How to grow plants in a spacecraft
... space missions must be perfectly adapted for a crew to sustain a long journey in good health The nutritional balance of food supplied for space missions must be perfectly adapted for a crew to sustain a long journey in good health. As resupplies...
July 2018
Using algae to support astronauts on deep space missions
... to other planets is the problem of how to replenish food and oxygen supplies along the way. Tobias Niederwieser asks if...faeces and carbon dioxide to oxygen, drinking water and food. Major part of the US Regenerative Environmental Control and...
