The NASA Food Technology Commercial Space Center will engage in research and development projects to fulfill the following objectives:
Development of foods for 30- to 120-day space missions in support of the International Space Station (ISS) missions (minimum shelf life of one year).
Development of food and food-processing technologies to support human exploration of space missions (up to five years), including stored foods systems for transit vehicles and food-processing systems for site-grown crops.
Development of a terrestrial commercial production and marketing plan for products and processes developed for the space program.
Focused research in direct support of the development of food products, food production processes, waste processing, product safety for space, and terrestrial application.
Each of the objectives will meet NASA requirements for nutrition and safety and will take into consideration aspects such as convenience, eating pleasure, and space mission constraints of mass, power, volume, reliability, and crew time requirements.
