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Food Safety and HACCP owe much of its early development to the space programme and to keeping astronaut food safe.

Food Safe has curated a few videos below that make for some interesting viewing and learning about food destined for space.

To begin with, here’s to SpaceX Dragon Capsule’s successful docking at the International Space Station (ISS)

HACCP and its origins with NASA:

Space Food Systems Overview:

NASA’s Space Food Systems Laboratory – An Introduction to Astronaut Food:

Tasting New Space Food:

On a lighter note, here’s what it takes to produce Beer for future Human Expeditions to Mars!

Food sources for long journeys in space require us to grow and even ferment food in a zero-gravity environment.