NASA Offers $500K for Discovery of Best ‘Easy-to-Prep’ Space Food Technology to Feed Astronauts in Deep Space

Photo: Screenshot YouTube Video by NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center. Article by Nikki A. Tech Times – February 4, 2021.

NASA is on the lookout for Space food technologies that could more efficiently feed astronauts in space with fresh and easy to prep space food. NASA has offered up to 20 top scoring U.S. teams $25,000 USD each.

NASA Partners with Agencies to Launch Revolutionary Food Competition

NASA has partnered with Canadian Space Agency and the Privy Council Office for the Deep Space Food Challenge. As noted in Deep Space Food Challenge’s official website, the mission of the international competition is to pursue novel and game-changing food innovations that would have “minimal inputs and maximize safe, nutritious, and palatable food outputs for long-duration space missions, and which have potential to benefit people on Earth.” […]

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