NASA developing 3D printer 'food replicator'

[Saru]

$125,000 has been given to NASA for the development of a device capable of producing 3D printed food.

The challenges are multifold – not least among them producing something palatable out of a printer – but the idea is that with enough development, NASA might be able to come up with something that beats the current rations sent to places like the International Space Station.

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[readerlurker]

I'll have a medium Pepperoni, extra cheese, no anchovies.

[Dark_Grey]

$125,000 doesn't seem like much of a budget for something like this. How much did NASA spend designing that special "space pen"?

[paperdyer]

Unless it can make Earl grey, hot, it'll never catch on.

Edited May 24, 2013 by paperdyer

[ash68]

I hope they do this in my lifetime

[equus hemionus]

After all the fuss over pink slime, I wonder what the raw material used for printing will be.

[minera]

the money is nothing. It would hardly impact my mortgage if I used it to put a payment on it. Come on they give other groups particularly military more than that. They can do better than that.