October 2015
Eating in space: from Michelin-starred chefs to self-sufficiency
... something that tastes and smells good enough to make us want to eat it. It seems that the answers to the space food challenge need to be equally Earth-like. Far from a technological future in which astronauts can live on pills, tubes...
January 2023
Producing food in space
... Canadian Space Agency (CSA) organised the Deep Space Food Challenge, which seeks new space food solutions. Finnish company Solar Foods was ... fly on future missions to the Moon and Mars. Space food Solein is made from single-cell organisms, which only...
May 2017
Recipe for success on flights to Mars
... Martha collects rocks. Today’s space food eaten aboard the International Space Station (ISS) shares more ...plastic pouches that must be rehydrated or reheated. Ideally, space food should be lightweight, compact in volume, nutritious, easy to...
February 2023
How to grow plants in a spacecraft
...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...NASA. Much of the current space food ‘system’, however, has been proved to be deficient. Specifically...
February 2016
Danish Surprise for ISS Crew
... an astronaut eating,” recalls Schmidt. “He was floating around and the food was flying around. My six-year-old daughter came to me and said, ‘is this the space food you have to do?’ And I replied, ‘Yeah, actually it is!’ And she looked...
December 2017
Dressing up for space
... Keeper (Alice Laurentin, Isabel Cristina Martinez) This collection took inspiration from space food and packaging in microgravity and confined environments where sustenance is often in a freeze-dried and unattractive forms. Astronauts ...
