Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. Chelsea Davis is a SF based journalist covering food, drink & travel. If you've ever wondered about the future of space travel and food ...

Developing ways to grow food in space is the focus of the new Deep Space Food Challenge that was just launched by NASA and Canada’s Space Agency (CSA). With a total of twenty $25,000 USD prizes ...

PA Media The aim of the experiment was to test cooking options for long-haul space trips As the cookies ... container designed to hold and bake food samples in the microgravity environment".

Meals consumed by astronauts on the International Space Station come in two categories: the standard menu distributed by the United States and Russia, and bonus food. The latter are items selected ...

Imagine having to plan what to eat whilst you are up in space! When you think of space food, you might think of a very basic dehydrated or tube based meal that you have to quickly scoff before it ...

Shingo Horiguchi, 41, president of space-business consulting firm DigitalBlast ... The first big one is food and plant cultivation, since living and working on the moon requires a large amount ...

Getting food in space is tricky due to limited storage, nutrition needs, and challenges with zero gravity. Scientists have ...

Interstellar Lab's prototype NuCLEUS (Nutritional Closed-Loop Eco-Unit System) won NASA's Deep Space Food Challenge in August, a three-year space-cuisine competition that drew more than 300 teams from ...