Eating In Space

Today astronauts on the space shuttle eat food in much the same way as they do here on earth.

Eating in space. Salt pepper and other granular spices and seasonings can make for a huge mess in microgravity. Today the menu on the international space station includes more than 100 items. In space travel s early years astronauts used straws to suck dehydrated paste like food out of tubes. As on earth space food comes in disposable packages.

Astronauts must throw their packages away when they have finished eating. An astronaut can choose from many types of foods such as fruits nuts peanut butter chicken beef seafood candy brownies etc. 2019 05 14 csa astronaut david saint jacques takes advantage of microgravity in space to play with honey. In a low gravity environment food and drinks would simply float away if they weren t handled correctly.

Available drinks include coffee tea orange juice fruit punches and lemonade. Today space foods are similar to those eaten every day on earth. 2013 02 18 canadian astronaut chris hadfield shows us his kitchen in space and prepares a 0 g treat. Free floating food eating ensues complete with a tu.

Space food is a type of food product created and processed for consumption by astronauts during missions to outer space. 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. Russian space explorers known as cosmonauts have a long tradition of consuming limited quantities of alcohol in space but nasa astronauts are barred from having a drink in space. Canadian space agency nasa useful lin.