A bunch of students is trying to answer the question: can beer be brewed on the moon?
A team of engineering students from UC San Diego have embarked on a quest to figure out if the moon can provide for conditions conducive for brewing the drink.
The students call themselves Team Original Gravity, and are finalists in the Lab2Moon competition conducted by India’s TeamIndus. The experiment will see the viability of yeast on the moon, resulting in understanding not just if beer can be brewed on the moon, but will also aid development of pharmaceuticals and yeast-containing food, like bread.
“When we heard that there was an opportunity to design an experiment that would go up on India’s moonlander, we thought we could combine our hobby with the competition by focusing on the viability of yeast in outer space,” said Neeki Ashari, a fifth year bioengineering student and the team’s PR and operations lead. If all goes well, the team will land a spot on the spacecraft, where its special brewing canister will be sent to space in December this year.
