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Freeze-dried miso soup that rehydrates in hot water, and the DHA in baby formula, both trace back to NASA space food research. Drying cuts weight to a fifth while keeping 98% of the nutrition. Here's how space ended up in your kitchen.
Gravity makes crystals settle unevenly, leaving a jumble of grain sizes. So Merck grew crystals of the cancer drug Keytruda aboard the International Space Station, where microgravity produced a uniform 39-micrometer grain. That quiet orbital experiment is already shaping up a shot that could replace a hospital IV drip.
A battery-free sensor designed to monitor astronauts aboard the space station is now implanted in the pulmonary arteries of heart failure patients. One year after implantation, heart failure hospitalizations dropped 73%. A story about how an engineering constraint built for extreme environments ended up quietly at work inside the chests of people who need it most.
The chip behind your selfies started life as a miniaturized 'eye' engineered at JPL to fly to Mars and the Sun. The same sensor design is now made roughly 7 billion times a year, nearly one for every person on Earth.
In May 2026, NASA officially announced its plans to build a base at the lunar south pole. The goal has shifted from 'returning to the Moon' to 'staying there.' We break down the seven-year plan and what lunar living would actually require.