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Speaker 1: Welcome to Stuff from the Science Lab from how stuff

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Speaker 1: works dot com. Hey guys, welcome to the podcast. This

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Speaker 1: is Alison I don't know, like the science editor at

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Speaker 1: how stuff works dot com. And this is Robert Lamb,

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Speaker 1: science writer for how stuff works dot com. Today we're

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Speaker 1: talking about eating in space. Yes, and uh, I mean

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Speaker 1: I think the most famous form of space cuisine is

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Speaker 1: of course space ice cream. You've had space ice cream? Right? No?

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Speaker 1: You never had space ice cream? Never? Seven years old.

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Speaker 1: I've coveted it many times I walked past it. I

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Speaker 1: think they sell it at turner Field and we're of

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Speaker 1: course we're based in Atlanta. Um, and I've never had it.

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Speaker 1: My husband always dissuades me, like they bring it around

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Speaker 1: on the little No. No, there's just just a little

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Speaker 1: little cart. That's hells space ice cream. What purports with

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Speaker 1: the ice cream in the future where it's the little balls? Right? Oh?

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Speaker 1: Maybe I am that's the kind they have get the

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Speaker 1: six flags. Oh, that's what I'm confusing it west See.

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Speaker 1: I think that's just normal ice cream or it's just

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Speaker 1: like made into little frozen balls. Regardless, I have had

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Speaker 1: just regular old ice cream, which I very much like.

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Speaker 1: Had space ice cream because they not because I've been

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Speaker 1: into space obviously, but because they sell at it pretty

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Speaker 1: much every like UM Space Museum, gift shop or every

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Speaker 1: like you know, Air Force Museum. And my dad was,

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Speaker 1: I think it's a big seller. Yeah, it's it's a

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Speaker 1: huge seller. That not so great on the taste, like

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Speaker 1: I think a lot of cutes I had Neopolitan styrofoam,

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Speaker 1: I think because it all kind of tastes like ice cream,

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Speaker 1: but also tastes like packing material. Oh that sounds really unpleasant. Yeah, Actually,

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Speaker 1: they don't need all that much ice cream in space.

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Speaker 1: I heard that Apollo seven was the only mission to

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Speaker 1: have actually eaten this um this free drive. Also, it's

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Speaker 1: coated in gelatine too, so there's a big discrepancy between

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Speaker 1: what seems to be astronaut ice cream and when actually

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Speaker 1: is astronaut ice cream. Moreover, they have eaten um real

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Speaker 1: ice cream in in space with the addition of a

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Speaker 1: refrigerator on the Skylab mission. Wow, so now I feel

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Speaker 1: completely deceived. Yeah, well guess that a refrigerator, right, Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: so the space ice cream is bogus basically, And okay,

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Speaker 1: here's the last thing. While we're talking about sweet stuff,

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Speaker 1: in space. This one guy turned forty seven, astronaut by

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Speaker 1: the name of I think his name is Daniel Brandonstein.

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Speaker 1: Instead of giving him a real birthday cake, which they

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Speaker 1: had no I mean, they had no obligation to pack

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Speaker 1: up a birthday cake and sent it into space, they

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Speaker 1: gave him an inflatable birthday cake, an inflatable, non edible

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Speaker 1: birth like. It wasn't even like a chocolate membrane that

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Speaker 1: had been filled with air. It was no. No, I

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Speaker 1: think the guy just got to pop up birthday cake

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Speaker 1: was on fire. No, I don't think they too too

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Speaker 1: much lighting on fire in space. So that's kind of

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Speaker 1: the sweet stuff. But there's a whole lot of food

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Speaker 1: to be eaten in space other than just ice creaming, right,

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Speaker 1: It's it's not just guys and gals picking out on

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Speaker 1: ice cream and pop tarts? What else? What else? What

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Speaker 1: are some of the selections? See there's a Yeah, there's

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Speaker 1: a whole list, I mean like everything from like there's

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Speaker 1: like chicken all King Chicken, Like, hey, we'll beef strokeing

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Speaker 1: off a classic. Yeah, there's a shrimp cocktail. Actually, I

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Speaker 1: love the shimp cottail. You know, I was talking about

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Speaker 1: the shimp cottail because I have this image of the

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Speaker 1: astronauts after hours, they're in their party dresses, they're talking

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Speaker 1: about space weather, they're dipping the shrimp cottael into the

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Speaker 1: cocktail sauce. That's a really good visual, it is. I

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Speaker 1: I mentioned this exactly what it's probably happening right now,

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Speaker 1: no doubt, no doubt. But yeah, you can get like

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Speaker 1: scrambled eggs. You can get various puddings, even butter scotch pudding,

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Speaker 1: I think, which yeah, I think you're a little irate

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Speaker 1: that butter scotch pudding had been into space and you hadn't. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: like why does butter scotch pudding go into orbit? And

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Speaker 1: then beverages, of course we have some of those, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: a ton of those. Kind of a coffee drinker, yeah

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Speaker 1: and there, yeah, and there's like three different varieties of well,

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Speaker 1: two varieties of coffee and then decaffeinated. But yeah, you

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Speaker 1: can get it in various, uh, various forms of like

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Speaker 1: sweetened artificial sweetener or you know, with cream or without cream.

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Speaker 1: So it's good that everybody's gonna be wired up there. Yeah, Well,

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Speaker 1: on that same front or oppositely, you can't drink alcohol

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Speaker 1: in space. You guys probably need that, But I wonder

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Speaker 1: in some alcohol with our fox Bury juice. I wonder, yeah,

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Speaker 1: probably not though, or make it they've been up there

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Speaker 1: some moonshine on the side. Yeah, And then you can

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Speaker 1: them fast enough or in your space flight. Yeah. I

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Speaker 1: guess one of the key things to mention. And we'll

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Speaker 1: get more into this kind of thing a little later,

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Speaker 1: but the whole reason that you have ice cream that's

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Speaker 1: dehydrated is because you don't have to This may sound

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Speaker 1: kind of obvious, but if you take all the water

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Speaker 1: to carry the water up with you in some circumstances. Right,

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Speaker 1: So it's like you going on a big backpacking trip

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Speaker 1: or you know, a space flight as it were. I mean,

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Speaker 1: I mean you have to be mindful of that all

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Speaker 1: the time. And then the other thing is also spoilage too,

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Speaker 1: and then trash. I mean the volume of trash you

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Speaker 1: want to um pack in and pack out. Yeah, exactly,

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Speaker 1: So choosing what to eat that sounds kind of fun.

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Speaker 1: Have you you're married, right, did you guys go through

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Speaker 1: that whole wedding cake business where you get to taste

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Speaker 1: all the different wedding cakes. Yeah? Yeah, went out. I

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Speaker 1: got to sample three or four different cakes, you know,

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Speaker 1: going to go with. Well, astronauts sort of have a

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Speaker 1: similar deal in that a few months before there, before

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Speaker 1: their mission, they get to go in and taste all

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Speaker 1: the different foods available to them, and then they check

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Speaker 1: the ones that they want to eat and the ones

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Speaker 1: up on the menu. So you know, it's kind of fun.

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Speaker 1: It could be kind of interesting to taste all these

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Speaker 1: very space foods. But say you have this predilection for

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Speaker 1: junk food, Well that's sally need to redose, right, Or

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Speaker 1: chocolate pudding or scrambled eggs for junk food, No, not

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Speaker 1: so much. Well, I guess you put like syrup on

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Speaker 1: sauce a little later anyway. Um, So your your food

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Speaker 1: choices still have to fly by a nutritionist. They have

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Speaker 1: requirements are a little different. In space, you eat less.

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Speaker 1: a it's a basically a balance. The whole food selection

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Speaker 1: food that the asternight is going to really genuinely want

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Speaker 1: strong and appetite up there, correct, So, and they want

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Speaker 1: be just drudgery, right. But the thing is is, I mean,

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Speaker 1: taste in space is a little different from taste here

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Speaker 1: a factor in space, you know, You're just I never

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Speaker 1: basically eating with a cold. So you really can't taste

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Speaker 1: your space fries, you're gonna it's gonna be like plouring

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Speaker 1: a contact solution on them. That's great, Yeah, that's really

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Speaker 1: appetizing digestion in space what's that like? Well, um, it's

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Speaker 1: it's pretty interesting and kind of gross, which kind of

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Speaker 1: the digestion in general. But digestion is a is a

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Speaker 1: on the treadmill, Stephen Colbert treadmill, Yes, the Stephen Colbert treat.

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Speaker 1: So they say, your first day at your first day

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Speaker 1: in orbit is basically going to be constipation and you're

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Speaker 1: And uh, also, you're not gonna want to take any

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Speaker 1: laxatives in space for I think obvious reasons. That's a

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Speaker 1: great tip, thanks for Robert. Yeah, well, we just want

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Speaker 1: to touch all the all the bases about badly functions.

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Speaker 1: So if Annie Ashtuds are listening that are about to

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