Just in case people thought airline food was inedible: Astronauts on future missions to the Moon and Mars could subsist on a brand new “space food” that is concocted from thin air and urine, the ...

HOUSTON – At the international space station, it was one small sip for man and a giant gulp of recycled urine for mankind. Astronauts aboard the space station celebrated a space first on Wednesday by ...

Outer space has incredible views but the food could use some work. There’s a long and storied history of developing food for space travel. In the early days, astronauts ate and drank liquids and ...

BERLIN, Germany — The European Space Agency said Friday that human urine could one day become a useful ingredient in making concrete to build on the moon. The agency said researchers in a recent study ...

The European Space Agency has launched a new program that could have astronauts survive on a protein powder made from “thin air” and urine during long missions, the agency said in a press release. The ...

When NASA astronauts return to the moon in 2024, they'll need a lunar base that allows them to stay on the surface. And the astronauts may build their base using something readily available: their ...

Sustaining life aboard a spacecraft is a shrewd game of resource management. Astronauts must maximize all resources, extracting every possible benefit before “waste” can truly be called waste. Given ...