{"id":200780,"date":"2024-12-04T16:27:04","date_gmt":"2024-12-04T22:27:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/space-farmers-of-the-future-may-grow-fungi-flies-and-microgreens"},"modified":"2024-12-04T16:27:04","modified_gmt":"2024-12-04T22:27:04","slug":"space-farmers-of-the-future-may-grow-fungi-flies-and-microgreens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/space-farmers-of-the-future-may-grow-fungi-flies-and-microgreens","title":{"rendered":"Space Farmers of the Future May Grow Fungi, Flies and Microgreens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/space-farmers-of-the-future-may-grow-fungi-flies-and-microgreens2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s how the winners of NASA\u2019s Deep Space Food Challenge are making food out of thin air.<\/p>\n<p>By <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/author\/allison-parshall\/\">Allison Parshall<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A few weeks ago, I arrived hungry to the Brooklyn Navy Yard in New York City, ready for a unique culinary experience. Finalists of NASA and the Canadian Space Agency\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.deepspacefoodchallenge.org\/challenge\">Deep Space Food Challenge<\/a> had come from all across the planet to demonstrate how future astronauts might grow their own food. I descended upon a tiny cup of chocolate mousse topped with a raspberry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here\u2019s how the winners of NASA\u2019s Deep Space Food Challenge are making food out of thin air. By Allison Parshall A few weeks ago, I arrived hungry to the Brooklyn Navy Yard in New York City, ready for a unique culinary experience. Finalists of NASA and the Canadian Space Agency\u2019s Deep Space Food Challenge had [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-200780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200780","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200780\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}