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ISS Business Newsletter - October 2005
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High quality and delicious space food
 
 
Space food floating through the ISS
From tubes and cubes to haute cuisine - the refinement of space food
 
Astronaut food – this term still conveys a vivid picture of dusty and tasteless food-bars, which might have all the nutrients and vitamins a person needs per day, but still has more in common with cardboard than with a proper dish. But the days when space food resembled papier-mâché - in taste as well as in consistency - are long gone.
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Nutrition research in space
 
 
Dr Jan Pieter van der Lugt MBA
Effects of food on mood – space solutions for earthly problems
 
ESA's Commercial Promotion Office and TNO Food and Nutrition are evaluating opportunities to use space research to support the development of healthy and functional food.
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MEDICA 2005 (16-19 November 2005)
 
 
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Space meets medicine at MEDICA 2005
 
At MEDICA 2005, the largest medical trade show of its kind worldwide, the European Space Agency will team up with a line-up of international industrial partners to promote research on the International Space Station in the medical and pharmaceutical industry.
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SURE
 
  ESA proposal selected for EU funding
 
An ESA proposal has been selected by the European Union as a promising candidate for an EU infrastructure research funding within the 6th framework programme of the European Commission. The target of this EU programme is to improve European research coordination as well as technological development and demonstration.
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Company profile of ISS Lab Ruhr GmbH
 
 
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"We enhance your abilities"
 
ISS Lab Ruhr GmbH, founded in 2004 is a service provider located in Dortmund, Germany. Its main business focus is on offering innovative companies access to and the possibility of using innovative research opportunities available in microgravity conditions.
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Last update: 11 October 2005
  		 
 
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