On top of that, astronauts have to figure out how to eat in microgravity when their food and utensils can float up off the plate. But with all the advances in food technology, there are some foods ...

As we plan longer missions to space, the moon, Mars, and beyond, we'll need a way to keep our astronauts fed when they can't ...

According to the Baylor College of Medicine's Center for Space Medicine, long durations in space can change a person's eyes, including globe flattening, optic disc edema, and vision changes. The Space ...

Astronauts on the ISS even enjoy tortillas, fresh fruits, and vegetables thanks to resupply missions, though they have to eat some of these types of foods quickly. The average astronaut has also ...

Dowdy says there are three main types of food that astronauts eat in space. First, there's thermostabilized food, which is similar to canned food, in that it can be opened and eaten with a spoon.

In reality, the way astronauts eat and the variety of food has progressed massively since the early days of space missions. BBC Bitesize donned their jazziest spacesuit and spoke to Dr. Sonja ...

Blue Origin, Jeff Bezos's rocket company, makes sure its passengers eat breakfast before blasting ... Blue Origin passengers stay in the Astronaut Village campsite in the Texas desert, around ...

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Most people’s idea of space food is freeze-dried ice cream, and that’s not too far off: As much as space travel has changed over the decades, astronauts still eat freeze-dried and commercially ...

Space food is notoriously lackluster, but new technology is slowly revolutionizing the way astronauts eat. Whereas the first astronauts in space squeezed their meals from toothpaste-like tubes ...