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B.C. strawberries invade space thanks to NASA food challenge win

North Vancouver firm gets $380,000 thanks to an out-of-this-world menu
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The CanGrow Modular Food Production System by North Vancouver firm Ecoation Innovative Solutions is seen in this handout photo. The system and a menu devised on its output has won top prize in the Deep Space Food Challenge, hosted by the Canadian Space Agency and NASA, to come up with ways to feed people in space. THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO-Ecoation-Saber Miresmailli

Space food isn’t Tang and puréed meat in a tube any longer, in fact it’s mushroom bacon and fresh strawberries that have earned a North Vancouver company the grand prize in a Canadian Space Agency and NASA challenge to make food indoors.

Ecoation Innovative Solutions has won the Deep Space Food Challenge with their CanGrow Modular Food Production System, and will receive $380,000 in grant funding as the grand prize winner.

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