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Inside one of the massive brick-lined warehouses at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, more than a dozen teams laid out a rather odd display of food samples. Whether it’s a juicy meatball made from fungi, a batch of greens grown inside an ecosystem pod or a wheel of mushy crust heated inside a gravity-defying device, this eclectic menu could one day feed astronauts traveling to the Moon and beyond.
On Friday, NASA announced the winners of the second phase of its Deep Space Food Challenge. The announcement took place during an event held at the NYCxDESIGN Festival in New York, which showcased the work of the participating teams. In partnership with the Canadian Space Agency, the competition first called for novel food production technologies in January 2021 and is now entering its third and final phase.
Eight teams have been handed a check for $150,000, and also their next challenge: scale these concepts for the final frontier. The winning U.S. teams are: Air Company, Interstellar Lab, Kernel Deltech, Nolux, and SATED. Three international teams also made the cut: Enigma of the Cosmos from Australia, Mycorena from Sweden, and Solar Foods from Finland. The winning teams will now compete for $1.5 million in total prizes for the third and final phase.
“The whole system is working very well, now we need to adapt for a space environment,” Barbara Belvisi, CEO of Interstellar Lab, one of the winning companies which manufactures controlled-environment biofarms, told Gizmodo at the event. “The whole design of the system is based on gravity, and now you’re going to get rid of gravity.”
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Photo: NASA/Methuselah Foundation
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