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Nutrition is extremely important to astronauts living onboard the Space Station. Without fresh fruits and vegetables, they must subsist on pre-packaged, dehydrated meals that are healthy and contain vitamins and minerals, just as food here on Earth would provide. They even grow some of their own vegetables on-orbit! Enjoy camping or hiking? The technology used to prepare and package the food available to astronauts is the same technology used for the food you bring on your next outdoor adventure! Do you like to cook? One of your recipes could be an ideal candidate for being easy to prepare for the type of food astronauts eat. Have a green thumb? Maybe your community could benefit from having a garden to share. No matter how little, your project could help educate people around the world about the benefits of good nutrition habits and inspire technologies that make living a healthy life easier.
Feeding Children Everywhere
Feeding Children Everywhere exists to empower and mobilize people from all walks of life to help meet one of our most basic needs: FOOD. Through passion, education,inspiration and a ... Read More
Living Proof: Their Daily Bread
Millions of Egyptians suffer from poor nutrition, with side effects including birth defects and miscarriages. The Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) started a program to fortify Baladi Bread – the ... Read More
Coast Coconut Farms
Coast Coconut Farms is a social enterprise providing sustainable employment in Kenya's coastal rural areas to alleviate poverty through coconut based businesses. Coast Coconut Farms has reached over 1 ... Read More
Engineers Without Borders Fruit Dryer Project
The Johnson Space Center Chapter of Engineers Without Borders is helping the L'Esperance orphanage in Muganero, Rwanda become financially self sufficient by developing a sustainable system that channels waste ... Read More
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