Space Food
Other popular russian space foods include a variety of soups lamb with vegetables sturgeon borsch goulash curds and nuts.
Space food. Specially packed fruits and vegetables. Consumed means the food is eaten and disposed the typical types of food that astronauts eat on space missions and up in the iss international space station are. Space food is a type of food product created and processed for consumption by astronauts during missions to outer space.
Astronaut foods freeze dried banana split variety pack nasa space dessert with ice cream sandwich neapolitan banana and strawberry 6 count 4 1 out of 5 stars 181 24 51 24 51 8 17 ounce get it as soon as wed oct 7. Japan sends sushi ramen yokan and rice with ume for its astronauts. When china launched into orbit in 2003 for the first time yang liwei brought yuxiang pork kung pao chicken rice and chinese herbal tea.
Space food must be carefully contained so it doesn t float around in the low gravity microgravity environment. Nasa is offering packages of dehydrated astronaut space food to educational institutions and museums. Even something as simple as a few crumbs can become deadly in low gravity.
The food has specific requirements of providing balanced nutrition for individuals working in space while being easy and safe to store prepare and consume in the machinery filled weightless environments of crewed spacecraft. While glenn and the other mercury astronauts experienced no problems in chewing drinking swallowing or digesting the food was not considered very delicious. Mercury space food of the early 1960s was based on army survival rations and consisted of pureed food packed into aluminum tubes and sucked through a straw.