Courtesy of NASA
As humans prepare for sustained lunar and Martian missions, food must evolve from cargo into infrastructure. The goal is to . Deliver complete, safe, and enjoyable nutrition meeting 100% of daily nutritional needs with variety, safety, and palatability for sustained missions.
Mars to Table seeks solutions that:
- Deliver complete, safe, and enjoyable nutrition meeting 100% of daily nutritional needs with variety, safety, and palatability for sustained missions.
- Operate as fully integrated, end-to-end systems spanning production, processing, preparation, storage, and waste management as a cohesive whole.
- Minimize inputs while maximizing resilience and reuse combining pre-packaged, bulk, and in-situ food sources and integrating with life support systems for closed-loop or near closed-loop operation.
Key goals and constraints include limiting Earth-provisioned foods to no more than 50% of the system and integrating with environmental control and life support systems to enable efficient resource reuse.
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