I spent the weekend before last doing the NASA SpaceApps Challenge, and for the second year in a row, my team won the local competition with a combination of seemingly trivial geeky knowledge and twisted thinking. Our challenge: To boldly make pancakes where no pancakes have ever been made before. More precisely, we answered the challenge, Print Your Own Space Food. Here’s a quote from the challenge description:

Think Food Replicators, from an early sci-fi show. Investigate the benefits and feasibility of allowing astronauts to print their own food on the International Space Station or other space facility. What would it look like? What will it be made of? How will it be possible? Create a recipe for a 3D printed meal.