{"id":376087,"date":"2026-02-26T01:58:57","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T15:58:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/?p=968072"},"modified":"2026-02-26T01:58:57","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T15:58:57","slug":"nasa-study-to-analyze-fermented-food-samples-from-space-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=376087","title":{"rendered":"NASA Study to Analyze Fermented Food Samples from Space"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Astronaut and Expedition 73 Flight Engineer Kimiya Yui of JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) displays production bags containing probiotic yogurt cultures for the BioNutrients-3 investigation on Oct. 2, 2025, aboard the International Space Station.<\/div>\n
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Certain nutrients critical for human health lack the shelf life needed to span multi-year missions to the Moon, Mars, and beyond. NASA\u2019s BioNutrients<\/a>-3 is part of an experiment series testing ways to use microorganisms to produce these nutrients in space and on demand.<\/p>\n

The on-demand nature of this experiment is similar to making nutrient-dense fermented foods on Earth, such as how milk is transformed by good bacteria into yogurt. But in this case, there is a focus on producing specific types and quantities of nutrients essential for future space explorers.<\/p>\n

Samples from BioNutrients-3, along with other valuable experiments<\/a>, are set to return from the International Space Station aboard a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft supporting the company’s 33rd commercial resupply mission for NASA. The spacecraft is set to depart the space station on Thursday, Feb. 26 for its return to Earth. Watch NASA\u2019s live coverage of the undocking and departure starting at 11:45 a.m. EST on NASA+<\/a>, Amazon Prime<\/a>, and the agency\u2019s YouTube<\/a> channel.<\/p>\n

Once the samples return to Earth, the science team at NASA\u2019s Ames Research Center in California\u2019s Silicon Valley will perform analysis procedures. Results from this study can help NASA develop methods to produce vital nutrients that could support human deep space exploration as part of NASA\u2019s Artemis<\/a> campaign.<\/p>\n

NASA\u2019s BioNutrients-3 is part of the Synthetic Biology project, which is funded by the Game Changing Development program within NASA\u2019s Space Technology Mission Directorate.<\/p>\n

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Oscar Roque, engineer for NASA\u2019s BioNutrients-3 project, works at a console on Oct. 2, 2025, at the Multi-Mission Operations Center at NASA\u2019s Ames Research Center in California\u2019s Silicon Valley. The facility allowed the BioNutrients team to remotely observe experiments conducted by crew members aboard the International Space Station and communicate with astronauts in real-time.<\/div>\n
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Certain nutrients critical for human health lack the shelf life needed to span multi-year missions to the Moon, Mars, and beyond. NASA\u2019s BioNutrients-3 is part of an experiment series testing ways to use microorganisms to produce these nutrients in space and on demand. The on-demand nature of this experiment is similar to making nutrient-dense fermented [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15621,15606,15624],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-376087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ames-research-center","category-general","category-space-technology-mission-directorate"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376087","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=376087"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376087\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":376103,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376087\/revisions\/376103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=376087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=376087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=376087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}