Living in Space
Have you heard of how astronauts live in space? Experts try to work out how to feed astronauts in space. Astronauts might be able to enjoy food like steak and mashed potatoes–if they can figure out how these foods can be grown in a space lab. If a trial set to be launched into orbit on Tuesday is a success then these foods might become available for astronauts to snack on. Currently, most food sent to space has been freeze-dried to reduce its weight and to make sure it lasts. But scientists are working on how to grow food from individual cells. Maybe they could grow plants like carrots, broccoli, and more, so they don’t get sick of the same food. The European Space Agency project is looking at wether so-called lab-grown food could work in orbit.
First, I am going talk to about eating lab-grown meat. Organizations are currently looking into how safe lab-grown food is for humans. Lab grown chicken is already sold at a restaurant in California in the USA. All kinds of food are made in labs, which is usually a room or building used for scientific tests. All the food produced in these labs is called CCP which stands for cell cultivated product. It basically means any type of food that is made without using normal forming methods. Every living thing is made up of cells. Cells of animals or plants are grown and multiplied in a lab to create larger amounts of food. We already have pet food that is made in a lab, but currently in the UK there aren’t any CCPs for humans.
I am next going to talk about lab-grown meat on International Space Station. The technique could be used in the future to provide meat for people living on the space station. Lab-grown meat is a meat made in a laboratory without killing animals. Animals are made up of stem cells, which are form of special tissue like a nerve or skin cells. Scientists worked out how to take cells from an animal like a cow and multiply them in a special container called a Petri dish. Eventually, from one tiny muscle skin cell, tens of billions cells can be grown. These join together to form muscle tissue. Lots of strands of muscle tissue together can form meat.
Dr. Aqeel Shamsul is CEO and founder of bedford-based Frontier Space, which is developing the food project with researchers at The Imperial College in London. He explained that: “Our dream is to have factories in orbit and on the moon.”
This was all the interesting facts about the living in space and people’s food.
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