{"id":2467,"date":"2025-04-23T14:11:14","date_gmt":"2025-04-23T14:11:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/23\/scientists-launch-trial-to-grow-food-in-space\/"},"modified":"2025-04-23T14:11:14","modified_gmt":"2025-04-23T14:11:14","slug":"scientists-launch-trial-to-grow-food-in-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/23\/scientists-launch-trial-to-grow-food-in-space\/","title":{"rendered":"Scientists launch trial to grow food in space"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>2025-04-23 14:11:13<\/b><br \/>\n<BR>Steak and mashed potatoes could soon be grown in space.<BR><br \/>\nThe European Space Agency (ESA) is assessing the viability of growing lab-grown food in orbit and on other planets.<BR><br \/>\nESA is conducting the research in an attempt to reduce the financial burden of feeding an astronaut, which currently costs up to \u00a320,000 per day.<BR><br \/>\nThe experts say that the experiment is a first step to developing a pilot food production plant on the International Space Station (ISS) in two years from now.<BR><br \/>\nDr. Aqeel Shamsul &#8211; the CEO and founder of Frontier Space, the company developing the concept with boffins at Imperial College London &#8211; said that lab-grown food is imperative if NASA&#8217;s ambition to make humans a multi-planetary species is to be achieved.<BR><br \/>\nHe told BBC News: &#8220;Our dream is to have factories in orbit and on the Moon.<BR><br \/>\n&#8220;We need to build manufacturing facilities off world if we are to provide the infrastructure to enable humans to live and work in space.&#8221;<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"> Visit Bang Bizarre (main website) <\/a><br \/>\n<br \/><script src=\"https:\/\/geo.dailymotion.com\/player\/xtbac.js\" data-video=\"\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2025-04-23 14:11:13 Steak and mashed potatoes could soon be grown in space. The European Space Agency (ESA) is assessing the viability of growing lab-grown food in orbit and on other&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2468,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bizarre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2467"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2467\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2469,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2467\/revisions\/2469"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}