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Long Term Lunar Food Security is Focus of New Public-Private Japan Consortium

Sustainable Moon settlement study centered around in-situ food production, also conducting research on long duration physiological and psychological human effects, to be launched by JAXA in partnership with Space Foodsphere, a Tokyo-based study group with wide industry membership including Euglena Co. (algae-based biofuels), NTT Data (information technology) and Ajinomoto Co. (food science); Facilities within Japan may begin construction March 2022, with Antarctic locations to follow and vision of transferring technology to terraformation of exoplanets circa 2100

Pictured: Space Foodsphere Board Members (Clockwise) Y. Kikuchi, N. Tsuboyama-Kasaoka, H. Tanaka, M. Komasa, Y. Murakami, M. Shintani Credits: Space Foodsphere