On April 4, the first private astronaut mission of commercial space company axiom space to the international space station will be launched by SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket on April 6 local time. Aleph farms, a company, will use the mission to launch a technology platform to the international space station to test how to produce artificial meat in space < p > < / P > < p > artificial meat company Aleph farms is committed to developing artificial substitutes such as beef and collagen. "Long term space exploration such as going to Mars is limited by the ability to provide astronauts with high-quality nutrition. Aleph farms is developing a technology platform that can produce artificial steak, which consumes much less resources than raising a cow for meat," they said They added that understanding how this process works under low gravity conditions will help "develop a complete artificial meat production process for long-term space missions and establish a production process that can effectively reduce the earth's carbon emissions." < p > the experiment led by Aleph farms will be launched with axiom Mission 1, the first private astronaut mission of axiom space. If weather conditions permit, axiom space's mission will be launched from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on April 6 and finally arrive at the international space station < p > the mission lasts 10 days. SpaceX's manned dragon flying ship will carry four crew members to the international space station. The four are former NASA astronaut Michael L ó PEZ Alegr í a, American real estate entrepreneur Larry Connor, Canadian businessman mark pathy and Israeli philanthropist and former fighter pilot Eytan Stibbe < p > Steve will send the "micro laboratory" developed by Aleph farm to the international space station and plug it into the European Columbus module of the international space station to connect the power supply and monitoring system, which will enable researchers to control the whole experimental process from the ground < p > as part of the "lakia" mission, which included 35 scientific experiments, Aleph farms explained: "during the mission, our goal is to better understand the impact of microgravity on the two basic processes of muscle tissue formation." "These processes include the proliferation of bovine cells and how they differentiate into the basic components of steak." < p > Zvika tamari, molecular biologist and head of space research at Aleph farms: "our experiment will use a special microfluidic device." He explained that this experimental tool "enables beef cells to grow and mature under microgravity conditions to form muscle tissue, which is commonly referred to as cultivating steak." "The international space station has created a completely different environment for the completion of these processes, which means that a lot of work needs to be done to establish the corresponding conditions and processes to ensure the successful implementation of these processes." < p > tamari said, "establishing the process leading to the successful growth and maturation of cells is also the most important part of our preparation for this mission." < p > axiom Mission 1 mission will stay on the international space station for 8 days. At the end of the mission, the astronauts will splash down into the Atlantic Ocean in a spaceship < p > Stib will then return the microfluidic device to ALEPH farms. The researchers then sent the cultured cells to a laboratory in Israel for analysis and compared them with control experiments on earth < p > in addition to next week's mission, Aleph farms is also focusing on how to develop a closed-loop system to truly produce artificial meat for astronauts to eat during long-term space exploration missions. Tamari calls it "space Steak" < p > according to ALEPH farms, they imagine that astronauts can freely configure the nutrients of these artificial steaks and even add additional minerals and vitamins to them < p > this project, carried out in cooperation with astroas, a space food partner, has entered the second phase of NASA's deep space food challenge < p > Aleph farms added: "similar to car manufacturers' Formula One cars, we are developing the most effective process in the most difficult space environment." < p > this is not Aleph farm's first space experiment. The company conducted its first experiment on the international space station in September 2019 < p > in previous experiments, researchers successfully printed meat tissue in space using special three-dimensional bioprinting technology. (Chen Chen) < / P > < p >