A team of engineering students will attempt to brew the first beer on the moon. 

These young innovators will embark on an experiment to test the feasibility of yeast is space. The group called "Team Original Gravity" are from the University of California San Diego's Jacobs School of Engineering.

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They were one out of the 25 teams selected from around 7,000 entries to compete to hitch a ride with a moon lander that is slated to be launched in December.

The spacecraft was developed by a startup based in India called Team Indus, which is also a participant in the Google Lunar X Prize Competition.

To win the US $30 million grand prize, a team should be able to successfully launch and place a robot on the surface of the moon and obtain high definition images, and video of at least 1,640 feet of terrain and successfully transmit them back to Earth.

For Team Indus, the Indian Space Research Organization granted them a launch contract for the rocket launch.

Team Indus selected Team Original Gravity during the "Lab2Moon" challenge, where about 3,000 participants sent a concept video from 15 countries around the world. Team Indus then selected 25 teams to build prototypes of their concept and a winner was selected in March 2016 during the finals in Bangalore, India.

The experiments proposed by other teams include radiation protection using bacteria, plant growth on the surface of the moon, sintering of lunar soil, inflatable dome habitat testing, and a gene bank on the moon for endangered species.

According to Neeki Ashari of the University of California San Diego, there is a widespread appreciation for crafting beer and some of the team members even practice home brewing. When the opportunity came for an experiment to go up along with India's moon lander, we thought of combining our hobby with this competition and focus on the viability of yeast in space.

Apart from brewing beer in space, there are also other crucial applications of this yeast research such as developing food such as bread and pharmaceuticals for astronauts, Team Original Gravity said.