Houston, we have a podcast. Welcome to the official podcast of the NASA Johnson Space Center,

episode for Space Food. I'm Gary Jordan and I'll be your host today.

So this is the podcast where we bring in the experts, NASA scientists, engineers,

astronauts, all the coolest people that tell you all the coolest parts about NASA.

So today we're talking about space food with Takea Sermons. She's a food scientist here at the NASA Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas.

And we had a great discussion about the science behind what astronauts eat, what it is, how they make

it, and how they have a long shelf life, and what happens to an astronaut's palette after living in space for several months.

So with no further delay, let's go light speed and jump right ahead to our talk with Dr. Takea sermons. Enjoy. T-minus 2nd county.

Mark.

A long-commit life, sir, correct.

Here she goes.

Isn't we have a budget.

Okay, well Takeda, thank you so much for taking the time to come here today and talk about space food. This is one of my favorite topics because it's

space food, right? You're like, it's when you think about astronauts you think about

what do they eat in space and then you have all of these preconceived notions about what

they eat in space and so I thought first of all I think we should start the

episode before we even get into anything by just debunking a couple myths, right?

So, debunk those myths.

So debunk it right off the bat.

Did NASA invent Tang?

NASA did not invent Tang.

Tang was already in existence.

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