Inside NASA’s Contest to Develop the Space Food of the Future

Photo caption: NASA astronaut Jessica Meir dines on fresh mustard greens that she harvested aboard the ISS in 2019. Photo courtesy of NASA. Article by Sarah Miller. Atlas Obscura: Gastro Obscura – June 26, 2023.

Tucked in a quiet industrial park in suburban Ohio, an office building holds some of humanity’s future food solutions. In the lobby, glass panels line a wall, each highlighting a significant achievement in food-production history, from the advent of deep-frying to the invention of canning to the development of pasteurization. This timeline is a good introduction for what lies farther inside: a company that’s creating 3-D printed foods. […]

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