Brewing beer on the Moon would have an Indian connection

All countries are keen to get a pie of the Moon and while NASA wanting to colonize the moon by 2022 for a total cost of just $10 billion, Russia planning to land its first cosmonauts on the moon in 2031. However, one important question that is looking for an answer is whether or not beer can be brewed in space.
For that, a group of students have drawn up plans for brewing a batch of beer on the moon - and it has an Indian connection! A team of University of California, San Diego students are competing to send an experiment to the moon - it will go aboard a spacecraft built by Indian startup TeamIndus. The spacecraft has been funded under Google's Lunar XPRIZE competition.
This has been reported in dailymail.co.uk dated 23 January 2017.

The students are one of just 25 teams that has been selected from a pool of 3,000 to compete for a spot aboard TeamIndus spacecraft - it is expected to launch on 28 December this year. The experiment that would go up on India's moonlander would be a combination of hobby coupled with the viability of yeast in outer space.
Trying to know how yeast behaves on the Moon is important for development of pharmaceuticals and yeast-containing foods, like bread. In this case, the unfermented beer, or wort, will be prepared on Earth and then sent into space.
Incidentally, proposed experiments for the Lab2Moon competition have come from all over the world and range from photosynthesis to electricity. These will be evaluated by an international jury in March when teams fly to Bangalore, India, to showcase their final prototype.


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