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Growing deep space food is a new frontier, and Canadians will test its limits


Posted: Feb 21, 2021 4:00 AM ET | Last Updated: February 21
This illustration made available by NASA in April 2020 depicts Artemis astronauts on the moon. The human spaceflight program aims to land the first woman and the next man on the Moon by 2024, which is why international agencies are keen to develop new ways of producing food in deep space.(NASA via The Associated Press)
For many, the term astronaut food conjures images of dehydrated apple sauce and freeze-dried ice cream hauled with them into space from Earth.
But in the relatively near future, nutritious produce grown in deep space could be on the menu for astronauts. ....

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