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Archive for August, 2007

A Blast from the Future and the Past

Just because we civilians have to suffer through meals of stringy beef and stale chicken onflights doesn’t mean that astronauts must tolerate the same.

Even at zero-g, space explorers can get hankerings for something a bit more interesting. This summer, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) unveiled 29 Japanese food products to be used on the International Space Station.

More on the menu here.

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But the food of the future sure looks a lot like those pureed fruit bags that caused quite a stir at Pop!Tech 2006.

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