Photos from open Internet users are very interested, and some even made the news that NASA plans to feed interstellar travelers – feces.
Or rather, astronauts will not eat the feces themselves, but food that comes from certain waste management human life. According to NASA scientists, this will allow solve the problem of food space travelers, especially when long flights. Of course, the agency is simultaneously trying to solve the question of growing food directly on spaceship, but this path is more complex and very doubtful.
It is much easier and more reliable to process feces. Now the American space agency is involved in solving this Challenges of Clemson University Specialists (South Calorin). The latter claim that using biotechnology is quite it is possible to turn feces into food. Moreover, scientists promise to make it very nutritious and, most importantly, tasty, so that astronauts will not to feel flawed and in some way deprived.
Currently on the development of space food of the future allocated about six hundred thousand dollars. Scientists are already looking microorganisms that will be able to make, as they say, from manure – candy …
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