I thought this was a cute tidbit I found in the news about babies this week, the space shuttle program has helped developed a number of things one never thinks about, including today's baby formula recipes.
After researching algae as a recycling agent for space travel, scientists at NASA found one algae nutrient only found in human breast milk. Today, 95 percent of the infant formula out there is made with this algae-based additive called Formulaid. This ingredient is thought to be highly beneficial to infant mental and visual development, read NASA's press release.
“Millions of babies have been fed (by) NASA; that beats Tang,” Dan Lockney, NASA's spinoff technology manager, said to the Associated Press.
Read the full AP article here.
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