Your mission, should you choose to accept it: space food

How do make pre-packaged, vacuum-packed food enticing? Are there more efficient ways to produce food in remote locations, like on the moon, or a manned mission to Mars? Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to develop food production technologies that will help support long-duration missions in space, but also benefit people on Earth. The Deep Space Food Challenge is a joint prize competition launched in parallel by the Canadian Space Agency (CSA), the National Aeronautics and the Space Administration (NASA) Centennial Challenges Program, and their allied organization, the Methuselah Foundation. Among the panelists for a recent live event were: Dr. Grace Douglas, lead scientist for advanced food technology at Johnson Space Center; Dr. Scott Smith, nutritionist and…