Space Food

Other popular russian space foods include a variety of soups lamb with vegetables sturgeon borsch goulash curds and nuts.
Space food. Space food is a type of food product created and processed for consumption by astronauts during missions to outer space. When china launched into orbit in 2003 for the first time yang liwei brought yuxiang pork kung pao chicken rice and chinese herbal tea. Specially packed fruits and vegetables. Space food needs to be easily sorted and easily consumed.
While glenn and the other mercury astronauts experienced no problems in chewing drinking swallowing or digesting the food was not considered very delicious. Astronaut brian duffy sts 92 mission commander samples a beverage during a crew food evaluation session in the food laboratory at the engineering and applications development laboratory at the johnson space center jsc. The biggest differences between space food and regular food are in the packaging and design. 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.
Space food must be carefully contained so it doesn t float around in the low gravity microgravity environment. 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. 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. Japan sends sushi ramen yokan and rice with ume for its astronauts.