NASA Funds Program To Turn Poop Into Food

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Astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti seen taking a drink. There are food packets visible to the right. NASA.

The list of NASA Awards Grants that fund technologies with the intention of transforming future space exploration has been published. And there was one entry that caught the public eye: turning poop back into food. 

While this idea might sound like total crap, it's going to be an essential obstacle to overcome if we ever want to send humans as far as Mars.