Published: 11 October 2019
Last updated: 4 March 2024
ASTRONAUTS COULD ONE day enjoy fresh steaks in space after an Israeli company said it had, for the first time, successfully cultured lab-grown meat on the International Space Station.
Aleph Farms said in a statement Monday that astronauts in the Russian segment of the space station had carried out the experiment on September 26, proving that “slaughter-free meat” could be created 248 miles above the Earth’s surface without access to all the natural resources needed to raise farmed meat.
“This joint experiment marks a significant first step toward achieving our vision to ensure food security for generations to come, while preserving our natural resources,” Aleph Farms CEO Didier Toubia said in a statement.
The experiment uses Rehovot-based Aleph Farms technique of mimicking the natural process of muscle-tissue regeneration occurring in a cow’s body, essentially creating a small steak.
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Photo: NASA Expedition 59 Commander Oleg Kononenko, centre, in a spacewalk outside the International Space Station on May 29, 2019. (NASA/AP)
