The Deep Space Food Challenge is a collaboration between NASA and the Canadian Space Agency to design nutritional sustainability for long-duration space missions, such as those to Mars. The challenge seeks culinary innovations that address several key problems, including minimal ingredients and waste, nutritional value, taste, and simplicity of preparation. The Deep Space Food Challenge’s primary goal and the innovations developed by the contestants are to make long-duration space exploration, including missions to Mars, more feasible by addressing the challenge of limited food resources during these journeys. These advancements, additionally, have the potential to provide sustainable food solutions on Earth, … Continue reading NASA’s Deep Space Food Challenge Pushing Culinary Innovations for Interplanetary Travel