NASA’s Artemis II astronauts have given the public a rare glimpse into space dining, revealing that their menu includes rehydrated shrimp cocktail, green beans, and macaroni and cheese.
During a video call with the Canadian Space Agency on Saturday, Mission Specialist Christina Koch displayed various food bags and explained how astronauts prepare and eat their meals in microgravity.
“Let’s see what we’re going to pull out. This is Jeremy’s dinner,” Koch said. “In space, you really just eat all of your food out of bags of some kind — plastic bags or little metallic bags — because we have to rehydrate a lot of our food.”
Shrimp Cocktail in Space
“This is actually shrimp cocktail,” she continued. “This has been rehydrated already, so we added water to it, and the shrimp soaked back up the water. It’s actually pretty tasty.”
Koch also showed a bag of dried green beans that had not yet been rehydrated.
“This is an example of a food that has not been rehydrated yet. It got all dried out for flying up here in space, and those are green beans,” she said. “So we do have to eat our vegetables even in space — but don’t worry, they do give us mac and cheese.”
CPR Demonstration
During the same video call, Mission Commander Reid Wiseman and Mission Specialist Jeremy Hansen gave a lighthearted CPR demonstration despite the tight confines of the Orion capsule.
The crew is currently on a nearly 10-day expedition that will take them around the Moon and back to Earth. The mission is designed to test the Orion spacecraft’s capabilities while venturing farther into deep space than any human crew since the Apollo era.
Based on reporting by NASA and Reuters. Additional analysis by The Credibility News.
