Sesli: "We don't really know what the future of space food's going to look like, so it's wide open" He asks how do we balance our investment in space colonization and whatever secondary benefits we might derive from it. Sesli says he thinks raising a lever ad could aing wal rais in space would be very, very difficult. But if you can grow mushrooms in space, then knowing how to do that would be a benefit,. because you can extract protein from them.
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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