Weird History Food (2022) : 5x63

Everyone knows that traveling into space raises a lot of difficult issues, for example: How do you feed a human in zero gravity? Crumbs can damage equipment, liquids float away, and every meal has to survive launch while providing enough nutrition to keep astronauts alive millions of miles from Earth. In this episode of Weird History Food, we explore the strange, surprising history of space food, from freeze-dried meals to the science behind eating in orbit. Discover how NASA solved one of the most unexpected problems of human spaceflight, and why feeding astronauts remains a challenge more than 75 years after the dawn of the Space Age.