Fresh food, familiar meals, and a reserve that protects the crew.
NASA awarded Cislune second place and a $200,000 prize in the Deep Space Food Challenge: Mars to Table for Fresh, Ferment, Reserve.
The challenge asked teams to design an integrated food system for a 15-person crew living and working on Mars for 500 Martian sols.
AN INTEGRATED FOOD SYSTEM
Design for a crew’s real operating conditions.
Fresh, Ferment, Reserve combines mission-selected crops, instrumented culture cassettes that turn part of the harvest into familiar foods, and a protected Earth-loaded reserve for biological variability, utility curtailment, and rejected batches.
Fresh
Grow for the mission with crop choices that respect limited mass, time, and resources.
Ferment
Turn part of the harvest into familiar, flexible foods that fit everyday operations.
Reserve
Protect an option when biology or utilities do not behave as planned.
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