2021-12-16 – The Canadian Space Agency is involved in two food production initiatives that could be applied to long-duration space missions, and also have the potential to benefit people on Earth:
• the Deep Space Food Challenge, a collaboration with NASA and Impact Canada; and
• the Naurvik project, a collaboration between the Gjoa Haven community, the Arctic Research Foundation, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, and the National Research Council Canada.
This video features CSA astronaut Chris Hadfield and celebrity chef Lynn Crawford, both jury members of the Deep Space Food Challenge.
The Deep Space Food Challenge seeks to create novel food production technologies that require minimal inputs (materials, energy, water, etc.) and maximize safe, nutritious, and palatable food.
Ensuring that astronauts have nutritious food is a critical part of all human space exploration missions, especially future missions to the Moon and Mars. Crews will likely have to produce food in space to meet their nutritional needs. Producing food in extreme or hostile environments like space is a challenge that many of Canada's northern communities also face.
These innovations will not only be used for long-duration space missions, but will also have the potential to benefit people on Earth, particularly in remote and harsh environments, such as Canada's North.
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Credits: Canadian Space Agency, NASA, ESA/NASA–T. Pesquet, Arctic Research Foundation, Canacompost Systems, McGill University / McGill Advanced bio-Regenerative Toolkit for Long Excursion Trips (MARTLET), AlgaBloom International Ltd., University of Waterloo, Ecoation Innovative Solutions Inc., University of Guelph, PeaPod Technologies Inc., Noblegen Inc., Concordia University
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👉 About the challenge: [ Ссылка ]
👉 Food production: [ Ссылка ]
👉 Naurvik project in Nunavut: [ Ссылка ]
👉 What’s new: [ Ссылка ]
👉 Blogs: [ Ссылка ]
👉 Website: [ Ссылка ]
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[00:00] - Intro
[00:18] - Chris Hadfield, CSA astronaut, Deep Space Food Challenge jury co-chair
[00:45] - Lynn Crawford, Chef, Deep Space Food Challenge jury member
[01:12] - Matthew Bamsey, Senior engineer, Space Exploration Planning, CSA
[01:28] - Betty Kogvik, Naurvik technician
[02:00] - Ilias Hader, Deep Space Food Challenge semi-finalist, McGill University
[02:22] - Credits
