#DeepSpace Food Challenge

#InFynity is utilizing a fungi #protein to prepare nutritious and delicious foods.
#Nolux is producing plant- and fungal-based food using artificial #photosynthesis.
#MuMycology uses a closed-loop mushroom 🍄 cultivation system allowing for scalable growth of various edible mushrooms.
#KernelDeltech produces inactivated fungal biomass using a continuous cultivation technique.
#InterstellarLab produces fresh microgreens, vegetables, mushrooms 🍄, and insects 🐜 to provide micronutrients for long-term #SpaceMissions.
#FarOutFoods developed a nearly closed-loop food production system called the Exo-Garden that is capable of producing a variety of mushrooms 🍄 and hydroponic vegetables.
#SATED well-known foods from long-shelf-life ingredients.
#AirCompany developed a system that captures carbon dioxide exhaled by astronauts to produce #alcohol that is then fed to an edible yeast to make proteins, fats, and carbohydrates. https://www.nasa.gov/directorates/spacetech/centennial_challenges/nasa-announces-finalists-in-challenge-to-design-future-astronaut-food

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NASA Announces Finalists in Challenge to Design Future Astronaut Food

NASA has selected 11 finalists in Phase 2 of the Deep Space Food Challenge, a public competition to extend the limits of humans in space – through food.

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