NORTH VANCOUVER, BC. — The Canadian Space Agency and Impact Canada have awarded the C$380,000 Deep Space Food Challenge grand prize to Ecoation and Maia Farms. The companies’ CANGrow food system was ...

Photo: Astronaut Loren Shriver (STS46) demonstrates how objects act in microgravity while enjoying a snack of candy coated peanuts. Space Food History. The food that NASA’s early astronauts had to eat ...

Astronauts often report that the joy of eating is lost in space. Food that tastes fabulous on Earth may become bland and boring in orbit. In fact, despite carefully designed diets, space travelers ...

Created in collaboration with NASA during the height of the space race, Space Food Sticks were Pillsbury's innovative solution to the challenge of fueling astronauts on space missions. Developed by ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Interstellar Lab in Merritt Island, Florida, took home the grand prize of $750,000. Barbara ...

Variety, nutrition, and taste are some considerations when developing food for astronauts. For NASA’s Deep Space Food Challenge, students, chefs, small businesses, and others whipped up novel food ...

Life on the International Space Station requires some adjustments, including to astronauts' diets. Here are four food and drink items forbidden on the ISS.

Astronaut on moon next to American flag and lunar rover - Rawpixel.com/Shutterstock On March 23, 1965, NASA launched astronauts Virgil "Gus" Grissom and John Young ...

Legend has it that the very first food eaten in space was a tube of beef and liver paste, squeezed through an aluminum toothpaste tube into the awaiting open maw of Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin during ...

There was a 15 or so year blip in history when space–and massive government programs to explore space–was very cool. All a food company had to do was take, say, a powdered orange drink, slap a phrase ...

In this quiz, you'll explore the weird, wonderful, and sometimes surprising world of space cuisine. Can you tell which foods have actually made it to orbit? When astronauts head into orbit, they don't ...