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Fortune
Michal Lev-Ram

Meet Lisa Dyson, who looked to the space program for new ways to create nutritional food

Lisa Dyson (Credit: Courtesy of Air Protein)

Lisa Dyson’s mission is simple but incredibly ambitious: to make food from air.

The scientist turned entrepreneur says her startup’s work is based on NASA research that dates back to the space program in the 1970s, when the government agency was looking at ways to feed astronauts on long journeys. “The trajectory of our work is based on this program,” says Dyson. “[We’re] trying to figure out how to make food efficiently, using minimal space, minimal resources, and whatever you have available.”

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