NASA-sponsored tech startup has created a 3D printer that prints pizza

Bell Johnson
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Move over Star Trek -- new technological advancements are coming to the new frontier. A company out of Texas has created a 3D food printer for outer space.

NASA has teamed up with the startup, BeeHex, to build a 3D food printer as space missions gets longer and more intensive.

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This gives the space agency an easier way to feed astronauts during long space missions, and this new printer has already started making everyone's favorite -- pizza.

Like other 3D printers, the printer creates the dough, sauce and cheese combination out of edible ink.

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Long duration missions have the space agency worried about food supplies. Currently, the conditions onboard a spacecraft greatly limit the food astronauts can have. Pre-packaged food has to be engineered to last five years but loses its nutritional benefits as a result.

NASA is hoping a 3D printer would give astronauts the ability to engineer healthy food without time limitations.

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