Astronaut Jas with her Space Food + RIP Neil Armstrong

Hi to the people on Earth~ 

Address me as Astronaut J as I report live from one of the unknown planets in the Universe. 

Virtual Makeover done at  http://www.taaz.com/  with Rachel McAdams's hairstyle

Alright, enough of the nonsense above. I'm just hoping it could grab some attention there. Oh yes, today my post is on my favourite topic - FOOD! To be more specific, it's SPACE FOOD. Everyone needs to eat. Breakfast needs to eat, lunch needs to eat, dinner also needs to eat even my Sim Social charecter gets hungry and needs to eat. 

It's so easy for us and convenient for us to talk about eating. When we are hungry, we simply go to the nearest food court or coffee shop or market to buy our food and there's always so many choices for us to choose from. Now, have you ever wondered what the astronaut eat?    

Yes, I bought this interesting looking Freeze-dried ice-cream for S$10 after visiting the Titanic exhibition. Read post here.

Basically, astronauts eat 70% less food than people on Earth. Good way to slim down. They eat the same food as on Earth but the food are specially preserved and packaged up to avoid any contamination. Drinks are packaged as dehydrated powders instead of its liquid form. 

This packet of freeze-dried ice-cream was originally developed for the early Apollo Missions, after frozen to -40°F, it was vacuum dried and placed in a special polyfoil pouch. Thus, no refrigeration was required and it was made ready-to-eat, anytime, anywhere.   

 

This is how a freeze dried space ice-cream looked like. The taste is rather distinct making up of three different flavours - Strawberry, Vanilla and Chocolate. The texture is slightly rough and airy like Styrofoam which melts and turned into a thick goo inside my mouth. In a microgravity environment, food crumbs can be extremely dangerous to humans and equipment, so this space ice-cream was also coated with an edible gelatin to prevent crumbs. This makes a great snacks but seriously I still prefer the cold icy ice-cream, fresh out from the fridge! :D

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2193587/Neil-Armstrong-dead-Famed-astronaut-man-moon-dies-aged-82.html

Ending my post in mourning of Neil's death on the 25th of August. "That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind." -- Neil Armstrong, the first person to walk on the moon.   

Holding the moon on my palm ~! Taken at Taiwan, Hualien. The moon is bigger over there. Lol. 

-Wink At The Moon-