October 2015
Eating in space: from Michelin-starred chefs to self-sufficiency
... something that tastes and smells good enough to make us want to eat it. It seems that the answers to the space food challenge need to be equally Earth-like. Far from a technological future in which astronauts can live on pills, tubes...
May 2017
Recipe for success on flights to Mars
... Martha collects rocks. Today’s space food eaten aboard the International Space Station (ISS) shares more ...plastic pouches that must be rehydrated or reheated. Ideally, space food should be lightweight, compact in volume, nutritious, easy to...
January 2016
Danish Surprise for ISS Crew
... an astronaut eating,” recalls Schmidt. “He was floating around and the food was flying around. My six-year-old daughter came to me and said, ‘is this the space food you have to do?’ And I replied, ‘Yeah, actually it is!’ And she looked...
December 2017
Dressing up for space
... Keeper (Alice Laurentin, Isabel Cristina Martinez) This collection took inspiration from space food and packaging in microgravity and confined environments where sustenance is often in a freeze-dried and unattractive forms. Astronauts ...
July 2020
Investigations into plant growth on the Moon
... important in the ‘stepping-stone approach’ to future human space exploration missions beyond Earth, which will ultimately need to be... (FUOYE), Nigeria. Her primary research interests are space food for astronauts and the benefits this provides to the...
March 2015
Sowing a new dream
... – a special kind of teacher, one who brings knowledge of space. A woman in space Becoming a qualified taikonaut is never easy, especially for a woman....off, dropping from the escape tower, tasting space food, trying the rotation chair and talking with...
