"Lab grown meat proteins, that's got to be some interesting future in lab grown meat," he says. "You could molecularize it and put in one of your own unique, sort of flavored flavor." There is talk at nassa about breeding rodents for protein for long term missions,. So what? Absolutely. What's the new york city? We've got to our rodens. E, pet!"
How good is food in space? Neil deGrasse Tyson and comic co-host Jordan Klepper feast on food science and the challenges we face sending food to space with chef Alton Brown, food chemist Dr. Arielle Johnson and NASA food scientist Dr. Grace Douglas.
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