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If your parents ever took you to a science museum or planetary visit child, you likely spent much of your visit in the gift shop, begging them to buy you on the hundreds of shiny and purportedly

educational items on offer. A most irresistible of all was undoubtedly astronaut food, shiny foil

packets of freeze-dried strawberries or ice cream sandwiches.

Sure, they're the texture of a florist's foam crumbled into sticky dust and tasted like

sugary chalk, but that didn't matter. You're eating the same food as actual astronauts.

Well, we're sorry to ruin your cherished childhood memories, but sadly no, you weren't.

For a while, the freeze drying process used to make these novel treats was originally

developed for the space program.

No astronaut has ever eaten gift shop astronaut strawberries or ice cream during a mission,

for the simple reason that the crumbs would float away and wreak havoc in the spacecraft.

So what do astronauts actually eat in orbit?

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