{"id":13117,"date":"2024-01-27T19:37:29","date_gmt":"2024-01-27T18:37:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/01\/27\/farmbots-flavour-pills-and-zero-gravity-beer-inside-the-mission-to-grow-food-in-space\/"},"modified":"2024-01-27T19:37:29","modified_gmt":"2024-01-27T18:37:29","slug":"farmbots-flavour-pills-and-zero-gravity-beer-inside-the-mission-to-grow-food-in-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/01\/27\/farmbots-flavour-pills-and-zero-gravity-beer-inside-the-mission-to-grow-food-in-space\/","title":{"rendered":"Farmbots, flavour pills and zero-gravity beer: inside the mission to grow food in space"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Astronauts content themselves with freeze-dried gruel, but plans for crewed missions to Mars mean scientists need to create more delicious, nutritious menus<\/p>\n<p>Three robots are growing vegetables on the roof of the University of Melbourne\u2019s student pavilion. As I watch, a mechanical arm, hovering above the crop like a fairground claw machine, sprays a carefully measured dose of water over the plants.<\/p>\n<p>The greens themselves look fairly terrestrial \u2013 cos lettuce, basil, coriander and moth-eaten kale \u2013 but they are actually prototypes for a groundbreaking research mission to grow fresh food in outer space.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2021\/dec\/21\/sign-up-for-five-great-reads-guardian-australias-wrap-of-our-best-summer-stories\">Sign up for a weekly email featuring our best reads<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/food\/2024\/jan\/28\/farmbots-flavour-pills-and-zero-gravity-beer-inside-the-mission-to-grow-food-in-space\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/799bcef64f45a6577879d34033b9d4e0c577d229\/0_244_3500_2100\/master\/3500.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=6741e65f5293af0f344cbb3dd8426f32\" title=\"Farmbots, flavour pills and zero-gravity beer: inside the mission to grow food in space\" \/>Astronauts content themselves with freeze-dried gruel, but plans for crewed missions to Mars mean scientists need to create more delicious, nutritious menus<br \/>\nThree robots are growing vegetables on the roof of the University of Melbourne\u2019s student pavilion. As I watch, a mechanical arm, hovering above the crop like a fairground claw machine, sprays a carefully measured dose of water over the plants.<br \/>\nThe greens themselves look fairly terrestrial \u2013 cos lettuce, basil, coriander and moth-eaten kale \u2013 but they are actually prototypes for a groundbreaking research mission to grow fresh food in outer space.<br \/>\nSign up for a weekly email featuring our best reads Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Astronauts content themselves with freeze-dried gruel, but plans for crewed missions to Mars mean scientists need to create more delicious, nutritious menus Three robots are growing vegetables on the roof of the University of Melbourne\u2019s student pavilion. As I watch, a mechanical arm, hovering above the crop like a fairground claw machine, sprays a carefully &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/01\/27\/farmbots-flavour-pills-and-zero-gravity-beer-inside-the-mission-to-grow-food-in-space\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Farmbots, flavour pills and zero-gravity beer: inside the mission to grow food in space<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":13118,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13117"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13117\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}