{"id":173038,"date":"2023-09-29T10:26:02","date_gmt":"2023-09-29T15:26:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/kombucha-on-mars-it-could-be-key-for-astronauts-survival-off-earth"},"modified":"2023-09-29T10:26:02","modified_gmt":"2023-09-29T15:26:02","slug":"kombucha-on-mars-it-could-be-key-for-astronauts-survival-off-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/kombucha-on-mars-it-could-be-key-for-astronauts-survival-off-earth","title":{"rendered":"Kombucha on Mars? It could be key for astronauts\u2019 survival off Earth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/kombucha-on-mars-it-could-be-key-for-astronauts-survival-off-earth2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cDue to their ability to produce oxygen and function as bio-factories, this biotechnology could significantly enhance future space missions and human space exploration efforts,\u201d Nicol Caplin, an astrobiologist at the European Space Agency (ESA), said in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/Science_Exploration\/Human_and_Robotic_Exploration\/Kombucha_Ally_for_Moon_and_Mars\" target=\"_blank\">statement<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/30386-can-kombucha-survive-in-space.html\">Scientists Send Kombucha to Space in Search for Extraterrestrial Life<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Kombucha cultures, which are multi-species m\u00e9langes of bacteria and yeast, are key to creating the beverage. Add one such culture to room-temperature sweetened tea and, as long as the tea has plenty of sugar, microbes within will consume those nutrients, multiply and ferment the tea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cDue to their ability to produce oxygen and function as bio-factories, this biotechnology could significantly enhance future space missions and human space exploration efforts,\u201d Nicol Caplin, an astrobiologist at the European Space Agency (ESA), said in a statement. Related: Scientists Send Kombucha to Space in Search for Extraterrestrial Life Kombucha cultures, which are multi-species m\u00e9langes [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":692,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1527,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-173038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alien-life","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/692"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173038\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}