
NASA astronaut Dick Scobee, eating from a lap tray, during his stay aboard the Space Shuttle Challenger.
NASA
They say that, in space, no one can hear your belly rumble… but astronauts get hungry all the same.
On Monday evening, the European Space Agency, the Bezos Centre for Sustainable Protein and partners launched an experimental, fully automated miniature precision fermentation bioreactor into space aboard Europe’s first commercial returnable spacecraft, Phoenix, via SpaceX.
The …