Astronauts will grow beef cells into artificial STEAK on the International Space Station

If humans are to live on the moon and one day make it to Mars then scientists must come up a way for them to grow their own food. It is part of the Axiom Mission 1, NASA's first-ever space tourism mission to the ISS which will see three amateur astronauts spend eight days aboard the orbital observatory. Pictured is a vision for its base on Mars With NASA's Artemis moon mission on the horizon later this decade, and a longer term vision to set up a human base on the lunar surface, as well as a journey to Mars, Aleph Farms is positioning itself to supply food to astronauts as part of NASA's Deep Space Food Challenge Transporting it into deep space will be almost impossible, meaning science will have to come up with solutions for humans to feed themselves on such missions. Dr Tamari said the company's technology could allow people living on the moon or embarking on a nine-month journey to Mars to make their own 'fresh, tasty and nutritious' steaks, complete with all the minerals and vitamins they might need Currently the company only produces a thin type of 'fillet-like' steak, but its next aim is to create different cuts of meat such as ribeye, sirloin and rump In 2019, the firm produced the world's first 3D bioprinted ribeye steak Stibbe will travel to the ISS aboard a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft, which will lift off from Florida 's Kennedy Space Center at 11:17 ET today EXAMPLES OF AX-1 MISSION RESEARCH Larry Connor, Ax-1 mission pilot, entrepreneur, and non-profit activist investor, has a number of projects in collaboration with the Mayo Clinic. Now it is transporting the bovine cells up to space on a chip, with the aim of multiplying and diversifying them and turning them into muscle tissue and fat Former NASA astronaut Michael López-Alegría will serve as commander on the Axiom Mission 1, which will see the crew devote roughly a tenth of their time to science, medical and tech investigations López-Alegría will serve as the commander of the mission and Connor as pilot Stibbe and Pathy will work as mission specialists during the day-long trip to the ISS Axiom Space, the private space company developing its own module for the ISS, will operate the trip, sending the four to the station on a SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule The Houston-based company wants to launch a private module to the ISS in 2024 to start building on that goal.