By the way, freeze-dried ice cream isn’t real astronaut food. Although the stuff was developed for NASA and even appears in the Apollo 7 press kit (PDF, page 83), it has never flown into space ...

Kaziukoniene said: “In the early days of space exploration, astronaut food resembled toothpaste tubes. Freeze-dried food had to be rehydrated and consumed as puree from these tubes. This food ...

Moreover, freeze-dried foods were hard to rehydrate and crumbs had to be prevented from fouling instruments. The astronauts complained and on the Gemini missions eating improved somewhat.

The food provided to astronauts aboard the ISS is carefully designed to meet their nutritional needs, but it is heavily reliant on pre-packaged and freeze-dried options. Fresh food, which includes ...

Until the day we can reliably grow many types of food in space ... bite-sized cubes and freeze-dried powdered beverages, the fare is more far-out these days. Astronauts on the ISS even enjoy ...

When you think of space food, you might think of a very basic dehydrated or tube based meal that you have to quickly scoff before it floats away. In reality, the way astronauts eat and the variety ...