Been a fan of hers since STS-125, the final Hubble repair mission. Just a really remarkable person, imo. Anyway, it's nice to see something so out of the ordinary on this channel.
Thank you for that video! That was so neat to see how they eat up in space! Maybe you can create a video of the cooks at NASA to see how they prepare it for space.!!
@@bostonrailfan2427 Yes! How ever, freeze drying cost a lot more and leaves a whole lot more crumbs. Freeze drier 4000.$ Dehydrator under 100$ give or take on the $$$$. I had always thought all food was freeze dried for space this taught me something new.
Freeze drying is a method of dehydrating. Aside from the initial investment into the device required, cost isn't much different between both methods. Crumbs are not a problem since you don't eat anything without rehydrating it first. Those strawberries looked freeze dried to me, the color would be much darker and brown-ish if they were dehydrated using just hot air.
@@bostonrailfan2427 Hey! You're right on both points, I was not thinking of the wording used here, home use cost for food prep does matter to me. Thanks for your input on this, I missed the color on the strawberries, good eye on your part. Dead give away! Thanks!
This is the coolest thing that has ever been on ATK. It might even be cooler than the time Mr. Pang admitted that oyster sauce in fried rice was pretty good.
Anyone here remember Space Food Sticks? A snack food from the late 60’s or early 70’s. They were a chewy stick of a sort of candy wrapped in a silver foil - inspired by the moon landing and geared towards kids.
I know it was mentioned on a deleted scene from The Simpsons episode where Homer finds out his mom is still alive (and that deleted scene was used on "The Simpsons 138th Episode Spectacular"). Like most references on that show, I thought the writers made it up.
The peanut butter ones were my favorite! Every now and then I’ll taste something that is reminiscent of those and it takes me back to being a little kid. :-)
they have gone a long way from the old meals, food science and nutrition has gone hand in hand with NASA science so simple foods that most folks don’t think about are eaten by them and giving them the needed energy for their experiments and observations just think of the number of basic gadgets and instant foods we have due to the space program!
When she said she missed hummus... it almost surprises me that it isn't on the NASA menu. Instant rehydratable hummus powder is certainly a common enough product on Earth (if inferior to freshly blended). It'd be nutrient-dense, not too messy and perfectly fine on a tortilla, maybe with some rehydrated gyro strips.
They can eat most "moist" foods like pudding or jellies that easily sticks to eatware by surface tension alone. Actual liquids must be sucked via straw, and when you want to close it, but not done with it yet, you first close the valve, then suck out the last straw drops. This is done to prevent a mess.
Really interesting. As cold as it is in space I would think that the ISS would have some place to just put food to keep it frozen, some sort of compartment reachable from the inside of the station, but not insulated.
there’s issues with structural integrity and actual space needed for that…it’s just easier to go with the prepackaged foods and use the byproducts naturally created by the power generation and oxygen use
Except that space isn't actually cold, the average temperature in Earth orbit is about 10°C (50°F). In direct sunlight it can get as hot as 120°C (248°F) whereas in full shadow it can drop as low as -100°C (-148°F). The biggest deal with temperatures in space is that without an atmosphere there's nothing to retain and maintain the heat. So temperatures will change suddenly from one extreme to another, you can literally go from freezing to boiling in a second by just passing from shadow to sunlight.
@@RobinP556 that's fully understandable. Hollywood has a tendency to perpetuate the freezing cold of space. The only show that I can think of off the top of my head that gets it right is Apollo 13 when Jim Lovell (Tom Hanks) is talking about his pending retirement and he says something about "walking in a place where there's hundreds of degrees difference between night and day..."
The biggest problem inside the station is actually keeping things cool enough for the equipment. As the other poster said, theres nothing to moderate the heat, which also means it just builds up. If something hot gets thrown into space, it doesnt immediately freeze like in the movies. It takes a bit because theres nothing drawing the ambient heat away, so it just radiates. It would be different if you got thrown into cold water because the water is gonna actively suck the heat away. Thats why you can die in 50 degree water pretty easily So the space station has to have all kinds of water pumps and radiators to keep the station cool.
Many astronauts have recorded a full tour of the station from end to end, and they show their freezer: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minus_Eighty_Degree_Laboratory_Freezer_for_ISS
question no. 2: how do they deal with all those plastic packets once they've eaten the food from inside them? i guess with 5-6 people on board, 2-3 meals a day over a few months, those plastic packets would really add up quite quickly....
They load up all of the trash into the capsules that bring them the supplies, then launch them back to Earth, to burn up in the atmosphere. Only exception is SpaceX Cargo Dragon, it's used to return cargo (science experiments etc) to Earth safely.
Q: How do you *cook* up there? A: We don't actually do any cooking, but here's how we prepare our meals... Q: So who's assigned to do the *cooking?* A: We don't actually do any cooking, and everyone generally prepares their own meals... Q: What sort of *cooking* tools do you use? A: We don't actually do any cooking... Q: What tips do you have for *cooking* in space? A: -_-
I wonder if there was ever an inccident where one astronaut ate another astronauts food from the frig and then started agruing about it???? Like for instance, " Who ate my cake???"
‘So how do you cook in space ? ‘ ‘ we don’t really cook ‘ , next question : so how do you cook in space ? . ‘ We don’t really cook ‘ . ‘ would you say that you are the best chef in space ? ‘ 😂😂😂 perhaps think of your questions ahead of time and LISTEN to the answers ?
Pretty clear to me that this wasn't a live interview. The guy from ATK sent the astronaut a video with all his questions pre-recorded, and then she recorded her responses.
@@mattfojtik7130 granted, he (or someone else) edited to put the answers between the questions. So, didn't anybody watch the resultant video before posting it? If they're going to these lengths to make it seem like a live interview, perhaps they can rephrase & re-shoot the questions so they don't make him look like an idiot who isn't listening to her answers: Kevin: "How do you cook in space?" Megan: "We don't cook, all our food is prepared in advance." Kevin: "Cool, so when you cook, how do you..." Megan: "We don't cook in space." Kevin: "Okay, so is one person the designated cook?" Megan: "NO COOKING IN SPACE!" Kevin: "Are you the best cook in space?" Megan: "Are you mentally challenged?"
I imagine that hair floating in space would be similar to hair floating in water. I'm surprised it would still hang out behind her, rather than move in front her face, like my hair would.
my guess is just that her hair is trained that way, like how people part their hair differently. Water has more resistance due to it being denser than air, so it would have more influence on the hair going all in your face there
@@vucub_caquix Indeed but not only that: Hair strands are actually very long springs. Being wet removes those springiness, and that's something that one can observe even here on earth too. In space, the strands are not wet to lose their springiness but they are in 0 gravity without the water that would work against their structure while having the float, that's why hair moves in water like that and float in a springy way in space like this!
"Cargo resupply every couple of month." Do they ever get fresh foods on the resupply module that must be eaten right away, say fresh grapes without the stems? Might be an interesting treat for the first couple of days. Just a thought.
Every gram counts when you are sending something up there but yes, those may be great treats every now and then. It's just that you wouldn't want to send something that is 95% water, instead you can send 20 times the variety or amount which could be rehydrated at will, using the recycled water on ISS.
