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The ESA, the European Space Agency, is dedicated to advances in space exploration, with food and water sources fundamental for future life in space.
It was the Interkosmos from Bulgaria that succeeded in improving the process of freeze drying. Since 2002, a cooperative effort between the Space Dynamics Laboratory at
Utah State University and Russia’s Institute of Biomedical Problems, the LADA Greenhouse system has been employed in the ISS to grow plants (various salads, some green
beans with tomatoes grown under LED lights looking promising soon). On a more human level, on recent multinational missions, food has been a vehicle for intercultural
exchange and a facilitator for communication.
