Europe advances space food with bacterial and protein innovations for lunar and Martian missions
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Finnish company Solar Foods is developing Solein, a microbial protein made from microbes, air, and electricity, as a sustainable food source for long-duration space missions, with plans to test its production in space aboard the ISS to improve astronaut autonomy and resilience.
Topics:science#astronaut-nutrition#science-and-technology#solein#space-food#space-missions#sustainable-food
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