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Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome to food Stuff. I'm an Eeries and

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Speaker 1: I'm Lauren Vogelbaum, and this is our episode of food

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Speaker 1: Stuff in Space that's really high tech. Uh, sound effects

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Speaker 1: only the best. So there's a lot to talk about here. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: get right into it. What is space food? It's food

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Speaker 1: for space travel. Yeah. And as we all learned in

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Speaker 1: the Simpsons episode Deep Space Homer, in which Homer Simpson

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Speaker 1: lets potato chips and then ants loose in a spacecraft,

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Speaker 1: you've got to take some special considerations before you take

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Speaker 1: food into space because the equipment up there is you know,

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Speaker 1: kind of delicate, and any kind of loose particles or

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Speaker 1: drops of liquid could just seriously muck things up in

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Speaker 1: the near zero gravity of orbit. And yes, I said

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Speaker 1: near zero gravity, it's not really zero gravity. There's always

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Speaker 1: gravity kind of kicking around. So a technical point, but

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Speaker 1: an important one because of science. Yes, So you've got

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Speaker 1: to give astronauts food that's well contained, you know, like

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Speaker 1: tortillas instead of bread to reduce crumbs. Things that are

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Speaker 1: sticky or well enough to not float out of their

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Speaker 1: containers or off of a utensil. Uh, stuff like like

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Speaker 1: scrambled eggs or stews. Or oatmeal seasoned with salt that's

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Speaker 1: dissolved in water, and pepper that's suspended in oil. Oh yeah, Um.

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Speaker 1: It's also got to be shelf stable because refrigeration systems

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Speaker 1: for food are generally considered too bulky or difficult or

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Speaker 1: energy consuming. It helps if the food is dehydrated and

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Speaker 1: therefore lightweight, because the cost per pound of sending stuff

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Speaker 1: into space is uh well hefty, yeah, part intended, h uh.

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Speaker 1: And modernly most water in space comes from reclaimed, recycled

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Speaker 1: sources instead of from supply runs. Also, you have to

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Speaker 1: make really, like really sure that none of the packaging,

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Speaker 1: utensils or heating elements involved with your food might create

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Speaker 1: a spark that could start a fire. Uh, and they

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Speaker 1: want puncture any equipment. Don't want any of that. And furthermore,

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Speaker 1: the food has to be, you know, like not so

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Speaker 1: boring or so gross that the highly trained scientists and

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Speaker 1: flight specialists wind up starving themselves. Yeah, you don't want

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Speaker 1: that either. For travel to the International Space Station, five

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Speaker 1: months before emission, crew members do a taste test of

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Speaker 1: twenty to thirty things, ranking taste, texture, smell, appearance in

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Speaker 1: color on a scale of one to nine, and to

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Speaker 1: make the cut of food needs to score a six

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Speaker 1: or higher. They can request some of their favorite foods

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Speaker 1: from home, and researchers will do what they can to comply.

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Speaker 1: For example, for Canadian Chris had Fields stay uh, they

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Speaker 1: added to the menu duck roulette and candied smoked salmon,

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Speaker 1: wild caught even and maple syrup cream cookies. Well, that

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Speaker 1: sounds delicious. Dietitians have to balance the need of space

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Speaker 1: as well. For instance, astronauts need calcium and vitamin for

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Speaker 1: good bone health in a witless almost weightless environment, but

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Speaker 1: um and the less iron because you're making less red

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Speaker 1: blood cells in space. Space travel and the need to

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Speaker 1: feed astronauts in space has fueled a lot of food

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Speaker 1: and food processing innovations like thermostabilized or heat processed foods

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Speaker 1: that can come in cans or pouches, rehydratable foods like

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Speaker 1: soups or castroles, and your radiated meat. The the irradiated

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Speaker 1: means that it won't spoil, not that it's like Godzilla. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: that's what I thought at first, that would not be good.

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Speaker 1: It generally takes about twenty to thirty minutes to prepare

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Speaker 1: a to like reconstitute and heat a space meal. Um,

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Speaker 1: and a lot of these innovations, like freeze dried food

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Speaker 1: went on to become available to your you know, every

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Speaker 1: day non astronaut consumer like Lauren and I. We could,

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Speaker 1: we could probably do a whole other episode on like

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Speaker 1: the technological innovations from the space program that have benefited

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Speaker 1: the food industry Earth side. Yeah, but that day is

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Speaker 1: if that makes sense, but we're moving on with it.

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Speaker 1: Current astronauts on the International Space Station eat three meals

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Speaker 1: Food Systems Laboratory comes up with these menus for American astronauts,

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Speaker 1: while the Russian Federal Space Agency does the same for

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Speaker 1: its cosmonauts. Most of these meals are the just add

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Speaker 1: water variety, similar to the military's m R. E's. Some

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Speaker 1: package foods a lot of us are more familiar with

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Speaker 1: make their way up to space as well, like almonds

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Speaker 1: or drinks the straws a lot cuprey Son, which is

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Speaker 1: what I thought of anyway. UM, food packages come with velcro,

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Speaker 1: I would be so cross with my snack if it

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Speaker 1: floated away. Astronauts and costronauts and etcetera also do sometimes

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Speaker 1: hard to to nail down a finite cost of sending

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Speaker 1: Well that's the low end, huh yeah yeah, and and

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Speaker 1: a pound equals about half a kilo UM for for

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Speaker 1: which means that sending a single fresh lemon to space

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Speaker 1: can cost about ten grand. I would enjoy that lemon

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Speaker 1: so much though, Ye right, Uh cocktails in space, So

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Speaker 1: actually we've got a segment on that later. Um. The

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Speaker 1: total food eaten by astronauts. Yes, on average, each gets

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Speaker 1: about three point eight pounds including the packaging. They probably

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Speaker 1: food items that have been sent to space. The most

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Speaker 1: are M and M's, with over one thirty chips since

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Speaker 1: third is the iconic astronaut powdered drink mix tang Yes,

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Speaker 1: there atmosphere space. Human ability to taste is lowered by

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Speaker 1: Apparently shrimp cocktail is just white no kept coming up. Yeah. Uh.

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Speaker 1: Part of what's going on here, not with a shrimp cocktail,

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Speaker 1: water used by its astronauts. Uh. The station collects the

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Speaker 1: collect urine for astronauts and lab animals. Um That all

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Speaker 1: reconstituted the ever important coffee. Oh yeah, there's a whole

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Speaker 1: let's talk a bit about the origins of space food.

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Speaker 1: Space food goes back about as far as the US

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Speaker 1: not going to talk about ancient Romans. Pliny didn't have

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Speaker 1: In addressing this, NASA developed a program called the Hazard

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Speaker 1: was to prevent food safety issues by employing a seven

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Speaker 1: is now a requirement in the US for all meat, seafood, poultry,

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Speaker 1: in April of nineteen sixty one, and it consisted of

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Speaker 1: was apple sauce. Yeah, and period, beef and vegetables, both

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Speaker 1: American Canned Company Container scientist. These twobes have been developed

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Speaker 1: He His flight also marked the first leftovers in space,

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Speaker 1: a tube of spaghetti that he chose not to eat.

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Speaker 1: edible materials. Okay, Willy Wonka scene, All right, yep, it

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Speaker 1: sounds gross, but I bet it's lovely. It's just a

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00:26:47,600 --> 00:26:51,040
Speaker 1: weird way to think about it. The pouch omits odor.

428
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Speaker 1: And with that we do have some more for you,

429
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Speaker 1: including booze in space. Has it been there? Of course

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Speaker 1: it has. But first we're going to take another quick

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Speaker 1: break for a word from our sponsor, and we're back.

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Speaker 1: Thank you sponsor. Okay, so booze in space. Obviously, you

433
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Speaker 1: don't want a bunch of astronauts floating around drunk while

434
00:27:21,200 --> 00:27:23,480
Speaker 1: they're supposed to be you know, science, sing and like

435
00:27:23,600 --> 00:27:28,920
Speaker 1: staying alive. But of course there's been boozin space of course.

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00:27:29,440 --> 00:27:33,560
Speaker 1: Um Russian cosmonauts had cognac and their rations during the

437
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Speaker 1: early days of the space age. UM one reported that

438
00:27:37,160 --> 00:27:40,680
Speaker 1: their doctors had recommended it. Uh quote, we we used

439
00:27:41,040 --> 00:27:43,320
Speaker 1: we used it to stimulate our immune system and on

440
00:27:43,400 --> 00:27:46,760
Speaker 1: the whole to keep our organisms in tone, in tone.

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00:27:48,600 --> 00:27:51,840
Speaker 1: The first liquid poured and perhaps consumed on the Moon

442
00:27:51,960 --> 00:27:55,600
Speaker 1: was actually wine. Buzz Aldrin, who was an elder at

443
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Speaker 1: his Presbyterian church, arranged to take communion on the Sunday

444
00:27:59,440 --> 00:28:02,320
Speaker 1: that he and Neil Armstrong landed on the Moon. Before

445
00:28:02,320 --> 00:28:05,560
Speaker 1: they left lunar module, he took the wine and bread

446
00:28:05,800 --> 00:28:08,520
Speaker 1: and radioed a message back to Earth. It wound up

447
00:28:08,520 --> 00:28:12,399
Speaker 1: not being broadcast due to some PR trouble that NASA

448
00:28:12,480 --> 00:28:15,240
Speaker 1: was having regarding separation of church and state. Um. But

449
00:28:15,320 --> 00:28:17,800
Speaker 1: what he said was, I would like to request a

450
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Speaker 1: few moments of silence, and to invite each person listening

451
00:28:20,560 --> 00:28:23,520
Speaker 1: in wherever and whomever they may be, to pause for

452
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Speaker 1: a moment and contemplate the events of the past few hours,

453
00:28:26,640 --> 00:28:28,680
Speaker 1: and to give thanks in his or her own way,

454
00:28:30,080 --> 00:28:34,439
Speaker 1: which I think is lovely. Yeah. Um. In the early seventies,

455
00:28:34,480 --> 00:28:37,800
Speaker 1: with the sky Lab overhaul of the NASA menu, food

456
00:28:37,840 --> 00:28:42,880
Speaker 1: researchers tried their darndest to include wine with their menu offerings,

457
00:28:42,960 --> 00:28:46,360
Speaker 1: a four ounce ration every four days. They settled on

458
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Speaker 1: sherry because, as it's already been heated during production, they

459
00:28:50,040 --> 00:28:52,800
Speaker 1: figured it would be the least damaged by the space

460
00:28:53,320 --> 00:28:58,800
Speaker 1: packaging process. But the plan went seriously sideways. Uh. First

461
00:28:58,840 --> 00:29:01,239
Speaker 1: of all, when public, when the public got wind of

462
00:29:01,280 --> 00:29:05,080
Speaker 1: the idea, um, some some people got really upset. They

463
00:29:05,120 --> 00:29:07,520
Speaker 1: didn't like the concept of astronauts these these you know,

464
00:29:07,600 --> 00:29:10,840
Speaker 1: these all American heroes that are children are watching. They

465
00:29:10,880 --> 00:29:14,719
Speaker 1: didn't like the thought of them drinking. Secondly, when NASA

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Speaker 1: tested the sherry on a low gravity plane, um, let

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Speaker 1: me let me quote Charles Borland, a space food engineer,

468
00:29:24,720 --> 00:29:27,760
Speaker 1: the odors released by the wine, combined with the residual

469
00:29:27,800 --> 00:29:30,520
Speaker 1: smell of years worth of people getting sick on the plane,

470
00:29:30,880 --> 00:29:34,480
Speaker 1: had an unplanned effect on the crew. Many grabbed for

471
00:29:34,520 --> 00:29:38,960
Speaker 1: their barth bags. The sherry was not sent to space.

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Speaker 1: NASA would later outlaw any drinking in space from its astronauts,

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Speaker 1: and the official I s S statement on booze in

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Speaker 1: space is that because alcohol is a volatile compound, astronauts

475
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Speaker 1: drinking could muss up their water recycling program, but that

476
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Speaker 1: does not preclude alcohol from being used experimentally. One microbiology

477
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Speaker 1: project out of the University of Colorado, through NASA's Space

478
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Speaker 1: Product Development, brewed a wee batch of beer in space. Huh.

479
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Speaker 1: It's east cell count was kind of low, and there

480
00:30:14,240 --> 00:30:17,400
Speaker 1: was more of one of the yeast's proteins than usual,

481
00:30:17,640 --> 00:30:20,720
Speaker 1: though the researchers aren't sure why that's interesting. More they

482
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Speaker 1: think it might be like a stress response protein. The

483
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Speaker 1: East were like, I know, right, or feeling something. For use,

484
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Speaker 1: whiskey maker Art Beg sent a few vials of Scotch

485
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Speaker 1: whiskey distillate plus oak shaving oak cast shavings up to

486
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Speaker 1: the I s S to see how microgravity would affect

487
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Speaker 1: the flavors pulled from barrels during aging. And yes, the

488
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Speaker 1: shavings part is unusual, don't worry. They also kept a

489
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Speaker 1: few vials on Earth as a control. Near zero gravity

490
00:30:54,080 --> 00:30:57,680
Speaker 1: seemed to inhibit the extraction of some compounds from the wood,

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Speaker 1: leading to an unusual balance of flavor compounds overall in

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Speaker 1: the whiskey um. When they tested both samples back on Earth,

493
00:31:06,040 --> 00:31:09,800
Speaker 1: yes they drank the space whiskey. The Earth sample smelled

494
00:31:09,840 --> 00:31:14,360
Speaker 1: and tasted like art beg um. The space sample was

495
00:31:14,440 --> 00:31:18,200
Speaker 1: basically totally different. And Okay, I'm gonna quote the kind

496
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Speaker 1: of extensive tasting notes from both samples because it's just

497
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Speaker 1: super fascinating to me. Okay, so Earth sample a roma

498
00:31:24,800 --> 00:31:29,160
Speaker 1: very woody, hints of cedar, sweet smoke and aged balsamic vinegar,

499
00:31:29,320 --> 00:31:33,640
Speaker 1: hints of raisins, chuckled toffee, of vanilla and burnt oranges.

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Speaker 1: Taste dry palette, woody balsamic flavors, sweet smoke and clove oil,

501
00:31:39,320 --> 00:31:44,040
Speaker 1: a distant fruitiness, prunes, dates, uh, some charcoal and antiseptic notes.

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00:31:44,320 --> 00:31:47,560
Speaker 1: The aftertaste is long, lingering and typically art beg with

503
00:31:47,680 --> 00:31:51,920
Speaker 1: flavors of gentle smoke, briarwood, tar, and some sweet creamy

504
00:31:51,960 --> 00:31:56,960
Speaker 1: fudge sounds. Lovely um from the I s S sample

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00:31:57,480 --> 00:32:01,840
Speaker 1: a roma intense and rounded with notes antiseptic smoke, rubber,

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00:32:02,120 --> 00:32:06,520
Speaker 1: smoked fish, and a curious perfumed note like a cassis

507
00:32:06,680 --> 00:32:11,200
Speaker 1: or violet, powerful woody notes, hints of graphite and some vanilla.

508
00:32:11,600 --> 00:32:15,440
Speaker 1: This then leads into very earthy soil notes, a savory

509
00:32:15,480 --> 00:32:18,480
Speaker 1: beefy aroma, and then hints of rum and raisin flavored

510
00:32:18,520 --> 00:32:24,320
Speaker 1: ice cream taste a very focused flavor profile with smoked fruits, prunes, raisins,

511
00:32:24,320 --> 00:32:29,800
Speaker 1: sugar plums and cherries, earthy pete smoke, peppermint, aniseed cinnamon,

512
00:32:30,000 --> 00:32:34,200
Speaker 1: and smoked bacon or hickory smoked ham. The aftertaste is pungent,

513
00:32:34,480 --> 00:32:38,239
Speaker 1: intense and long, with hints of wood, antiseptic lozenges and

514
00:32:38,360 --> 00:32:44,760
Speaker 1: rubbery smoke, rubberies smoke. I mean, that's a lot of

515
00:32:44,800 --> 00:32:47,360
Speaker 1: word salad, but like, but they were just distinctly different.

516
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Speaker 1: And I think that's great. Yea space whiskey science. That's

517
00:32:52,880 --> 00:32:58,200
Speaker 1: some fascinating science right there. Yeah, more research is clearly necessary,

518
00:32:59,200 --> 00:33:03,440
Speaker 1: and one one study with with rats from suggested that

519
00:33:03,480 --> 00:33:08,040
Speaker 1: a compound founded red wines um reservera troll could help

520
00:33:08,080 --> 00:33:11,760
Speaker 1: astronauts stave off the muscle waste that happens without rigorous

521
00:33:11,800 --> 00:33:15,360
Speaker 1: exercise in low gravity and environments. Um so maybe in

522
00:33:15,400 --> 00:33:18,640
Speaker 1: the future, with longer space missions, bringing along a little

523
00:33:18,640 --> 00:33:22,840
Speaker 1: bit of wine wouldn't be considered it superfluous. Let us

524
00:33:22,840 --> 00:33:26,280
Speaker 1: all forget about supplements. Yeah, yeah, forget about those things.

525
00:33:26,680 --> 00:33:32,880
Speaker 1: But hey, speaking of the future, let's talk about the future. Yes. So,

526
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Speaker 1: now that NASA and other space traveling entities are planning

527
00:33:37,840 --> 00:33:41,400
Speaker 1: missions with even longer durations, like um, I don't know,

528
00:33:41,840 --> 00:33:44,480
Speaker 1: mission to Mars, one of the main goals is to

529
00:33:44,680 --> 00:33:47,600
Speaker 1: take the current eighteen months shelf life of foods and

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00:33:47,680 --> 00:33:51,560
Speaker 1: extend it to five years. Yeah. One option that NASA

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Speaker 1: is looking at would have crew members building a hydroponic

532
00:33:55,080 --> 00:33:58,320
Speaker 1: growth lab and growing fresh produce inside. This would be

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00:33:58,440 --> 00:34:01,600
Speaker 1: a solution for menu cheek, which on a year plus

534
00:34:01,600 --> 00:34:05,200
Speaker 1: long mission becomes a real concern. Cooking and space, however,

535
00:34:06,480 --> 00:34:09,560
Speaker 1: really difficult, if not impossible, thanks to that whole gravity thing,

536
00:34:09,640 --> 00:34:13,279
Speaker 1: along with the host of energy and space considerations like

537
00:34:13,280 --> 00:34:17,839
Speaker 1: like area space not space. Yeah, I didn't even think

538
00:34:17,880 --> 00:34:20,879
Speaker 1: about that. The journey to Mars would take about two

539
00:34:20,880 --> 00:34:23,920
Speaker 1: and a half years, by the way, and require somewhere

540
00:34:23,960 --> 00:34:29,760
Speaker 1: around twelve tons of food. Yes, people eat man, that's crazy,

541
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Speaker 1: okay yep, potentially sent to Mars separately before the human

542
00:34:33,160 --> 00:34:38,960
Speaker 1: crew takes off um of four months. Experiment conducted in

543
00:34:39,880 --> 00:34:43,040
Speaker 1: examined that the implications and limitations of astronauts cooking their

544
00:34:43,040 --> 00:34:46,880
Speaker 1: own food. The stipulations were among the six crew members.

545
00:34:46,960 --> 00:34:50,320
Speaker 1: Food could only be cooked on certain days, Only shelf

546
00:34:50,360 --> 00:34:53,719
Speaker 1: stable products like honey our rice could be used, and

547
00:34:53,840 --> 00:34:56,480
Speaker 1: only a limited amount of energy expanded on things like

548
00:34:56,520 --> 00:35:00,319
Speaker 1: a hot plate. All the participants preferred days when they

549
00:35:00,360 --> 00:35:04,360
Speaker 1: cook something. They said it allowed for creativity and social bonding.

550
00:35:05,440 --> 00:35:07,760
Speaker 1: A few projects have been looking into three D printing

551
00:35:07,880 --> 00:35:10,719
Speaker 1: as a potential solution to cooking in Space that the

552
00:35:10,760 --> 00:35:13,400
Speaker 1: basic idea is that you could use good old tubes

553
00:35:13,440 --> 00:35:16,480
Speaker 1: of food stuff as ingredients, and that that the printer

554
00:35:16,800 --> 00:35:20,160
Speaker 1: could make those into different dishes. We'll have to do

555
00:35:20,200 --> 00:35:23,600
Speaker 1: a whole episode about about three D food printing sometime. Yes,

556
00:35:23,880 --> 00:35:28,480
Speaker 1: it's pretty great. I'm so on board with red romaine.

557
00:35:28,520 --> 00:35:31,640
Speaker 1: Lettuce became the first crop grown and eaten. Space Three

558
00:35:31,640 --> 00:35:34,759
Speaker 1: crew members toasted their lettuce after dipping the pieces in

559
00:35:34,800 --> 00:35:38,400
Speaker 1: olive oil. I know, and they were quite satisfied with

560
00:35:38,440 --> 00:35:41,279
Speaker 1: the taste. I do remember when this happened being in

561
00:35:41,320 --> 00:35:46,120
Speaker 1: the news. Longer missions also expand on the nutrient deficiency problem,

562
00:35:46,239 --> 00:35:50,960
Speaker 1: like shrinking bones and squashed eyeballs. I didn't look into that,

563
00:35:51,239 --> 00:35:54,520
Speaker 1: but I saw it and it scared me. Oh yeah,

564
00:35:54,800 --> 00:35:58,560
Speaker 1: microgravity does things to your eyeballs that I don't want

565
00:35:58,600 --> 00:36:01,840
Speaker 1: squashed eyeballs. I don't want like astronauts getting that that.

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Speaker 1: This sounds terrible. No, no, no, no one, No one

567
00:36:04,120 --> 00:36:08,239
Speaker 1: deserves a squashed eyeball. Um, there's if there's anything we've

568
00:36:08,320 --> 00:36:11,839
Speaker 1: learned from Game of Thrones. Uh by, by the way, um,

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Speaker 1: if you are interested in the kind of history part

570
00:36:14,160 --> 00:36:16,560
Speaker 1: of all of this, there's a really terrific textbook called

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Speaker 1: the Astronauts Cookbook that was co written by Um. By

572
00:36:19,880 --> 00:36:22,480
Speaker 1: that guy I quoted earlier about the about the Sherry

573
00:36:22,840 --> 00:36:26,760
Speaker 1: Um who worked in NASA's Space Food program for thirty years.

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Speaker 1: So he has a lot of stories in there. Look

575
00:36:29,520 --> 00:36:33,520
Speaker 1: it up, check it out. And other than that, that

576
00:36:33,520 --> 00:36:35,640
Speaker 1: wraps up our episode on space food. Yeah, that was

577
00:36:35,680 --> 00:36:41,760
Speaker 1: a crash course. Okay, so that brings us to listener mail. Yes,

578
00:36:42,600 --> 00:36:45,600
Speaker 1: so the first one comes from Drew who wrote in

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Speaker 1: about another exploding food stuff. Yes, so many beer. If

580
00:36:51,520 --> 00:36:54,239
Speaker 1: you ever do an episode on beer or homebrewing your

581
00:36:54,239 --> 00:36:57,760
Speaker 1: own beer, just realized that fermenting is a very dangerous process.

582
00:36:58,320 --> 00:37:00,680
Speaker 1: I learned homebrewing from a friend who got started about

583
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Speaker 1: six months before I did, and we have been competing

584
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Speaker 1: with each other ever since. My first big brew at

585
00:37:05,760 --> 00:37:09,240
Speaker 1: home was also my most dangerous. I did everything properly,

586
00:37:09,280 --> 00:37:11,600
Speaker 1: and I put a special blow off valve to release

587
00:37:11,640 --> 00:37:14,319
Speaker 1: the CEO two that builds up with the yeast as

588
00:37:14,320 --> 00:37:16,319
Speaker 1: it eats the malt sugars and poops out CEO two

589
00:37:16,320 --> 00:37:18,600
Speaker 1: and alcohol. So I note I always loved saying that

590
00:37:18,640 --> 00:37:21,799
Speaker 1: alcohol is yeast poop. I made a very strong beer

591
00:37:21,880 --> 00:37:25,160
Speaker 1: and feel filled my carboy pretty full. I figured the

592
00:37:25,160 --> 00:37:28,799
Speaker 1: blowoff valve would be sufficient, but unfortunately I would soon

593
00:37:28,920 --> 00:37:32,200
Speaker 1: find out it wasn't. That night, at the night I

594
00:37:32,239 --> 00:37:34,319
Speaker 1: brewed my first or second beer, I put it to

595
00:37:34,360 --> 00:37:36,799
Speaker 1: rest in my closet went to bed. As I was

596
00:37:36,880 --> 00:37:39,240
Speaker 1: lying and trying to sleep, I heard a very strange sound.

597
00:37:40,280 --> 00:37:42,080
Speaker 1: I heard a big thunk and would appeared to be

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Speaker 1: a pop. At first, I didn't think much about it,

599
00:37:45,400 --> 00:37:47,960
Speaker 1: but I had a dreaded feeling. I got out of

600
00:37:48,000 --> 00:37:50,440
Speaker 1: bed and checked all my beer and discovered that it

601
00:37:50,440 --> 00:37:54,280
Speaker 1: had blown up and beer splattered all over my closet.

602
00:37:54,760 --> 00:37:57,600
Speaker 1: I proceeded to take the carboy out and clean everything up.

603
00:37:58,080 --> 00:38:00,480
Speaker 1: Knowing that natural yeast and bacteria was highly likely to

604
00:38:00,480 --> 00:38:02,239
Speaker 1: be entering the carboy. I capped it off with the

605
00:38:02,239 --> 00:38:04,719
Speaker 1: blow valve again and put it in my kitchen and

606
00:38:04,719 --> 00:38:07,239
Speaker 1: proceeded to clean up my closet. Within a minute of

607
00:38:07,239 --> 00:38:09,560
Speaker 1: getting started on cleaning, I heard a dreaded pop and

608
00:38:09,560 --> 00:38:13,840
Speaker 1: salve beer all over my kitchen. This happened another two times,

609
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Speaker 1: with me panicking over what to do in the middle

610
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Speaker 1: of the night. I ended up giving up for the

611
00:38:18,440 --> 00:38:21,560
Speaker 1: night and just leaving it open to the elements. I

612
00:38:21,640 --> 00:38:23,840
Speaker 1: spent a few hours cleaning my kitchen and closet for

613
00:38:23,960 --> 00:38:26,480
Speaker 1: going to sleep, and then fixing my beer in the morning. Thankfully,

614
00:38:26,480 --> 00:38:30,359
Speaker 1: it turned out okay, but definitely tasted different. I hope

615
00:38:30,400 --> 00:38:33,160
Speaker 1: you enjoyed the explosion story and a cautionary tale for

616
00:38:33,200 --> 00:38:36,640
Speaker 1: anyone wishing to get into brewing beer. I did solve

617
00:38:36,680 --> 00:38:38,520
Speaker 1: the problem pretty quickly after that, and I have no

618
00:38:38,640 --> 00:38:44,439
Speaker 1: problems with exploiting beers since. Oh yeah, so cautionary tale

619
00:38:44,440 --> 00:38:49,000
Speaker 1: indeed for anyone looking to homebrew. Yeah, I'd like to

620
00:38:49,040 --> 00:38:53,040
Speaker 1: try it one day, but I've always been kind of terrified.

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Speaker 1: I guess, I guess we should. Yeah, I mean for science.

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Speaker 1: I've got a basement for the show. Okay, Well, there

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Speaker 1: we go. Excellent. Okay. Also, um Alexa wrote in about

624
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Speaker 1: an alcohol emission from our Oyster episode Uh, saying, my

625
00:39:10,800 --> 00:39:14,000
Speaker 1: favorite shot to introduce my friends too is an oyster shooter.

626
00:39:14,320 --> 00:39:17,279
Speaker 1: Typically it is vodka, although it's some Mexican restaurants they

627
00:39:17,280 --> 00:39:21,799
Speaker 1: defaulted tequila. Bloody Mary Mix also loved that episode, thank you. Uh.

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00:39:21,840 --> 00:39:24,759
Speaker 1: And a medium shell oyster balanced on the rim of

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Speaker 1: the shot glass. You then plup the oyster into the

630
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Speaker 1: shot glass, swirl it up and kick it back. It's

631
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Speaker 1: a delicious way to enjoy an oyster. And since you

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00:39:32,719 --> 00:39:34,799
Speaker 1: had episodes on two of the three ingredients, I thought

633
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Speaker 1: I would write to you. I've only ever had them

634
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Speaker 1: in Boston, so I'm not sure if this is just

635
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Speaker 1: a Boston thing, just a New England thing, or if

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