Call it pee-cycling.

Just in case people thought airline food was inedible: Astronauts on future missions to the Moon and Mars could subsist on a brand new “space food” that is concocted from thin air and urine, the European Space Agency (ESA) announced.

“This project aims at developing a key resource which will allow us to improve human spaceflight’s autonomy, resilience and also the well-being of our astronauts,” said Angelique Van Ombergen, the ESA’s chief exploration scientist, the Independent reported.

Developed by Finnish startup Solar Foods, Solein, as it’s called, is a highly versatile and fuel-efficient powder that’s manufactured from microbes, air and electricity via a gas fermentation process.

Meanwhile, the key ingredient, urea — an organic compound found in urine — provid

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