NASA is treating food as mission-critical hardware for Mars, designing future habitats where crops grow alongside life-support systems instead of arriving only in cargo holds. The agency’s long-term ...

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Michele Perchonok is NASA's Advanced Food Technology Program Manager. She outlines what will be on the menu for a mission to Mars in the 2030's.

What would it take to make a cobb salad on Mars? How would you grow the lettuce, or raise the chickens? NASA launched a challenge Tuesday that aims to answer questions like these. “Astronauts on ...