Certain nutrients critical for human health lack the shelf life needed to span multi-year missions to the Moon, Mars, and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. NASA volunteers pass out milk, fresh fruit and produce during a food drive for NASA employees who are furloughed or working ...

Three Apollo 11 astronauts and two other men eating steak and eggs at long dining table with white tablecloth - Bettmann/Getty Images NASA astronauts are focused on many things on launch day, from ...

NASA is creating a space food system that provides astronauts with safe and nutritious meals for longer space exploration missions. The space program's food scientists are working on designing food ...

On Thanksgiving, crew members aboard the International Space Station can fortunately forget about NASA's Apollo-era turkey salad that resembled salmon-colored glue poured into a chrome cat-food-like ...

NASA is treating food as mission-critical hardware for Mars, designing future habitats where crops grow alongside life-support systems instead of arriving only in cargo holds. The agency’s long-term ...

NASA’s SpaceX Crew-12 mission conducts medical and plant research aboard the International Space Station to improve intravenous fluid systems, cardiovascular treatments, and food growth in ...

Ryan Dowdy, a former NASA food scientist, won a USDA innovation grant to further develop a meal replacement bar for first responders. Trump's... He once made food for astronauts. Will his new idea ...