Chinyere Ukeje, a 25-year-old computer scientist and designer from Northeast Philadelphia, won NASA's $300,000 Deep Space Food Challenge: Mars to Table for her Adaptive Nourishment Infrastructure concept. ANI outlines a modular, resilient ecosystem to grow, prepare and cook fresh daily meals for long Mars missions, designed to operate through power, water, equipment or crew shortages and support extended crewed missions far from Earth.
