"NASA Explores Deep Space Food Production for Astronauts' Menu"
Air Company of Brooklyn has developed a way of recycling carbon dioxide exhaled by astronauts in flight to grow yeast-based nutrients for protein shakes designed to nourish crews on long-duration deep-space missions. The company's patented AIRMADE technology was one of eight winners announced by NASA this month in the second phase of its food competition, along with $750,000 in prize money. The new food-growing schemes are more appetizing and promise to be far more nutritious than the freeze-dried snacks consumed by astronauts in the earliest days of space travel.