NASA, Canadian Space Agency award up to $750K to teams competing in Deep Space Food Challenge

NASA has awarded $750,000 in prizes to eight winning teams in its Deep Space Food Challenge. 

The winning teams will move on to compete in the third and final phase of the agency's challenge. 

The Deep Space Food Challenge calls on participants to create tech to help feed astronauts on future long-term space missions. 

NASA plans to send astronauts farther into the solar system than ever before with its moon to Mars initiative. 

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First, they will send humans to the moon in the Artemis program, working to establish a presence there before sending astronauts to the red planet. 

The second phase of the Deep Space Food Challenge tasked dozens of teams with the construction a...