Here is the astronauts’ out-of-this-world menu.
Astronaut eats: they don’t seem to be simply Tang and Area Meals Sticks nowadays. NASA shared a take a look at the menu for the Artemis II astronauts, and it does not sound half dangerous.
The Artemis II crew will take pleasure in greater than 10 kinds of drinks, together with espresso, mango-peach smoothies, inexperienced tea, apple cider, lemonade, a pineapple drink, cocoa and breakfast drinks flavored of their alternative of chocolate, vanilla or strawberry.
The most typical meals gadgets they’re going to eat embody tortillas, wheat flat bread, vegetable quiche, barbecued beef brisket, mango salad, granola with blueberries, macaroni and cheese, tropical fruit salad, couscous with nuts, broccoli au gratin, spicy inexperienced beans, almonds, cashews, and butternut squash cauliflower.
NASA additionally studies that the astronauts can select to boost their meals — there are 5 completely different scorching sauces out there to the crew. And culinary flavorings out there embody maple syrup, chocolate unfold, peanut butter, spicy mustard, strawberry jam, honey, cinnamon and almond butter. Candy treats embody cookies, chocolate, pudding, cake, candy-coated almonds and cobbler.
And, no, they don’t seem to be popping a taste capsule or sucking a sandwich out of a tube, like outdated sci-fi exhibits instructed us.
“Meals aboard Orion is ready-to-eat, rehydratable, thermostabilized or irradiated,” NASA says. “The crew makes use of Orion’s potable water dispenser to rehydrate meals and drinks and a compact, briefcase-style meals hotter to warmth meals as wanted.”
