I remember eating this stuff when I was 10 years old (Around 1982) and thinking “There’s no way astronauts are eating this stuff. It makes more crumbs than saltine crackers!” lol
I'm sad that you thought of that so long ago when you were so young...because i recently ran across someone close to my age who legitimately thought astronauts ate this bs...I've even seen people who KNOW the problem with using pencils in space but still somehow don't understand how this bs can't be taken into space.
"We chose to eat ice cream in space, and do the other things, not only when its easy but also when its a rocky road" That could have been a quote. I demand we fly this ice cream to space! Make a pouch or something for crumb control.
Actually, they remained popular in Australia, where Nestle Starz produced them until 2014. The gift shop at the Houston Aerospace Museum used to import them. They were like the sole US distributor in the 2000's. Oh, and they fired up the line again in 2019 for the 50th anniversary of Apollo 11. The Zone Perfect Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough protein bar has a consistency and taste very similar to Space Food sticks. I’ve been known to squish them and roll them into sticks.
Ooooooooh, Tang... I was traumatized by that stuff. The first time I gave blood, I was very squeamish, and almost fainted. The phlebotomist took the needle out and called over one of the medical assistants, who decided I was dehydrated and needed a blood sugar boost, and so proceeded to pour 27 fluid ounces of ice-cold Tang down my throat. OK, not exactly, but they did keep handing me 9-ounce cups of the stuff and insisting I drink it, which I did. This did nothing for my feeling faint, but after 3 cups of hastily downed ice-cold Tang, I also felt nauseous and had a brain freeze. Every time I see a package of Tang, this memory comes flooding back.
Astronauts did never have that Space Ice Cream in space. Why. The problem with that freezedryed ice cream is that it crumbles into small pieces that could be floating around. Something that can be dangerous to the equipment on board. The goal for food products in space is to make as little crumbs as possible.
Ironically, that's also why normal ice cream is actually quite good for zero gravity - it _sticks_ to things, and primarily to itself. The blocker is in getting refrigeration up there, so it's more exclusive to permanent installations like the ISS.
@@ChrisMattern-oh6wx Actually, you can eat ice cream in space. The problem is the weight restrictions in a space launch. They have eaten ice cream on ISS a couple of times.
Space ice-cream is also sold as camping ice-cream. Go to any sporting goods store and look in the food section and next to the freeze dried beef stroganoff you will likely find a freeze dried ice-cream sandwich.
I worked at Oregon Freeze Dried for awhile and worked alongside the process of how they made this. It has a really interesting texture & taste but yeah it would be a nightmare in space. I'd get covered in the fine dust when emptying the carts once they came out of the industrial freeze drier.
It takes up less space once the water is removed. Fortunately, nowadays you can buy almost any confection freeze-dried. I still love me a good ol' brick of neapolitan every few years.
Used to always get astronaut ice cream whenever I visited a space museum as a kid (and I went to A LOT of space museums as a kid). Found some in the store recently and bought it in a burst of nostalgia. Man, it tasted better when I was a kid.
These are good. But they’re a once and done type of thing. I can’t get myself to spend $5 for a broken up ice cream sandwich, which has also shrunken a little.
It's hard to have an idea of the texture when you haven't tried it. I imagine it being like the texture of the marshmallows in lucky charms. Is this so?
Scam or not it’s tasty and doesn’t melt! Freeze dried candies are good too. I want to buy a freeze dryer but it’s going to set back as much my E bike did which was around $2000 it’s still a dream though. I probably would make the candies first. Or try Rocky road ice cream (my favorite flavor)
Fry's Electronics used to have this near the checkout and randomly scattered around the store. Myth or not, it was a fun snack, and everyone always wanted a taste when you took one out. Man, I miss Fry's Electronics so much.
This must be old, because I’m 40, I remember seeing this in stores during class and family trips but having no interest as it had no appeal. It would show up in places it had no business being, rendering it just another novelty product you’d see at tourist traps.
I remember as a kid my friend had ordered some of this from a novelties catalog. Possibly the Johnson Smith catalog, but I can't remember for sure. When I saw the picture and he explained what it was, I imagined what it would taste like. When he finally got it and we tried it, it tasted EXACTLY how I had imagined. Even the texture was spot on 😂.
I remember these on my 6th and 7th grade field trips. I told all of the kids back then that there was no way any one would actually eat it and they were lying to us. That stuff was gross. No astronaut would bother.
Absolutely love this stuff! And I used to claim that every museum in the world seemed to stock it, even if it made no sense -- the frigging ninja museum in Miyagi, Japan stocked it in its gift shop, for goodness' sakes! Then I encountered a museum that DIDN'T stock it, even though it would've made a lot of sense for it to do so: the Ishinomori Manga Museum in Ishinomaki, Miyagi, Japan. A museum dedicated to a manga artist who almost exclusively worked on science-fiction works involving space travel. The fact that the ninja museum sold astronaut ice cream, but a manga museum dedicated to a sci-fi manga artist didn't, blew my mind. ;)
I'm from Long Island and, back in the 80's, I'd been to Brookhaven National Lab several times on field trips. I bought Astronaut Ice Cream every time. Many years later, I was working at Petco and we got freeze dried "doggie ice cream." A co-worker and I tried it. It was Astronaut Ice Cream! We were excited because neither of us had Astronaut Ice Cream since we were kids. And yes, it had the same ingredients as Astronaut Ice Cream.
In the 70s, most of us knew the freeze-dried foods were for hiking/camping. Space Food Sticks and Tang were astronaut food. I liked them both at the time...I probably would find both disgusting now.
So sad when they stopped them, I missed out on last time buy. Their 'replacement' is awful. I never considered that astronauts actually ate them though, I always thought it was just 'inspired' by the types of foods they would.
@@LancerGimpManOh God, the "Retro Foods" brand replacement. It was chewy, and more like a Tootsie Roll than a space food stick. I'm serious: Zone Perfect chocolate chip cookie dough protein bars. The consistency and taste are right, and the bars can be "reshaped". Not that I would do that (hearing Mom in my head, scolding me for playing with my food).
1:35. John Young. Arguably the greatest astronaut ever. “Co-pilot” of the first Gemini mission, walked on the moon as the 9th person ever to do so on Apollo 16 in 1972, and commanded the first space Shuttle mission on STS-1 Columbia. STS-1 remains the greatest test flight ever. He flew in space 6 times, 2 on Gemini, flew to the moon twice, orbited once, landed once with Apollo, and flew twice on Space Shuttle Columbia, flights 1 and 9. Flew 4 types of spacecraft, more than any other astronaut to date. And yes, despite his lengthy list of credentials, the sandwich is a big part of his legacy.
When i got a scholarship to space camp, about 1992, they sold the " Astronaut ice cream" in the gift shop and that had to be the #1 seller because everybody ate it like every day.
@finnmcginn9931 IDK. My elementary school used to send the overall science fair winner, boy and girl, to space camp. But I was the last year they did it, something about inclusion and not favoring privileged children? Idk. This was during the Clinton administration so who knows. They even somehow arranged to have an Astronaut sign a photo personalized to me. I still treasure that. And a space shuttle launch happened while I was there and I got vip tickets, so great time for a kid.
tbh, i wouldnt be too surprised if astronauts had eaten ice cream in space, but i would imagine it was from one of the aforementioned tubes, rather than as a crumbly freeze dried mess
When I was a kid back around 1990, I lived at Travis AFB while my dad was serving in the Air Force. I can remember a few times when I would visit the museum they had on the base. One of the things they had at the gift shop was packets of freeze dried ice cream. I bought a few and thought that it was a peculiar taste when I first tried it, but I never forgot how the ice cream melts in your mouth. Over the years, I grew to really like it. Some many years later, I rediscovered freeze dried ice cream in the form of ice cream bars that you can buy in the sports section at Walmart. It was still as good as I remembered. Astronaut Ice Cream as I remember all those years ago can be found on Amazon if one is curious enough to try it for themselves.
2:15 the routes actually start with the first ever person in space Yuri Gagarin he squeezed beef and liver paste from an aluminium tube into his mouth and for dessert Chocolate sauce using the same method. I presume that is how the USA decided on something rather similar for Mercury 3.
Back in Columbus Ohio they had a place called COSI.. it was like a science center and as a Kid on a field trip thats where i found The Ice cream, I loved it!! lol went back 25 yrs later and that's some of the nastiest shizzz I've tasted lol
It would actually be awful for space, because of how flakey it is. You need foods that have some moisture content and are somewhat sticky so they stay together instead of crumbling into pieces.
I remember a similar marketing strategy with Tang back around the late 70s and early 80s. As a kid at the time I of course thought it'd be cool for them to have something to do with space, but that was trivial compared with what they tasted like.
I’ve seen ISS video of them eating the true space ice cream. Apparently, they like Klondike bars because they are quite good at not generating crumbs, at least in zero G. I get the impression that they only eat them on the day of a Cargo Dragon delivery, rather spend the effort and energy to figure out how to store them. I can’t say whether or not that has happened more than once.
I think the goal may have been to show what astronauts did to their foods though freeze drying, but the company that made it took it as "this is going to space" making an entire lore by accident they don't wanna break because advertising worked.
Now, what about Tang? And there was also Space Food Sticks. Both were very tasty and came long before Astronaut Ice Cream. (Space Food Sticks no longer exist, but I sat in front of the TV watching moon shots and miss them>)
I ate this stuff at the National Air and Space Museum. I hated it, it was like eating chalk. Never forgot that. But maybe I'd give it another try one day.
I was always told it was called that because freeze dried food used to be called astronaut food in the 1950s. I always assumed that was the only actual connection. though I don’t know if that is true either
Think is….. you absolutely could make a food for astronauts that could taste like ice cream…. It just couldn’t be the freeze dried treat…. It would have to be in the form of a paste and packaged in a tube or in a package like a ics cube trail with a peel off cover like the pretzel and nutella snack packs you get….
Honestly this looks like it ruins the flavor by completely altering the texture it's like turning Ribs into a milk, it's so beyond it's original intention it ruins the flavor profile and experience. I had this before in a non space ice cream label, felt truly like a compromise. But whatever it's for the kids.
NASA didn't have anything to do with TANG's development, It was actually devoloped independently by General Mills and became publicly available in 1959. Only afterwards was it adopted by NASA, starting with the Gemini mission in 1962.
There’s something weird about the astronaut ice cream that oddly made me like it better on land than actual napoleon ice cream. Something about how processed it is, maybe
I feel violated. Class action lawsuit anyone? For emotional distress? It's a slam dunk. Just make sure you have your original receipts from the gift shop.😋
I assume anything freeze dried was "spacy" somehow, also the American public had to cope the enormous cost of the apolo program by seeing technical progress everywhere.
I remember being one of the kids who got to try someone else's freeze dried ice cream, Didn't like it a bit, and to this day have no interest in trying it again.I thought it tased like a solid block of cotton candy, just way toooooo much candy flavor.
Here's two everyday items, one that's directly connected to the US Space program, and one that that was intended for space use. One, if you're a parent lately, are "squeez" foods, like yogurt, applesauce, and some baby foods. Not the foods themselves, but the container they come in is from the space program. The other is Ramen Noodles. The man who invented those delicious little bricks that you add hot water to and have a snack, was inspired by the space race in the 1960s, and expected his country, Japan, to enter it, so he developed something for the prospective Japanese astronauts to eat.
Ramen is ancient. Instant Ramen was created to solve world hunger. The guy who invented it even said he wanted to make a cheap food to sustain the poor. It had nothing to do with space.
US Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville Alabama always had a big display in their gift shop until this year. No where to be seen. I didn’t care for it though. Like eating Lucky Charms marshmallows.
I love freeze dried ice cream, Air Force base I lived by would sell them at their commissary I believe whenever I'd shop on base. They're fun to eat for a novelty, just taste like you're eating cardboard
It's gone!! I can only find the sandwich now, and they suck. The freeze-dried neopolitan puck was the best thing ever. Anybody still find them? It used to be the sole reason I went into REI
you need to do your research, space ice cream was used only once in space but due to its crumbly effect they never used it again and then it was marketed in gift shops etc
Space Ice Cream was a novelty. Scam? Meh, I guess it depends on how gullible you are. In my case, authenticity wasn't on my mind at all. The first time I encountered space ice cream was in the gift shop (of course!) of the Boston Museum of Science in 1992 or '93. One of my sisters was studying abroad for a year, in a country known for getting quite hot, and when I saw the packages of Space Ice Cream, I thought she'd get a kick out of it if I mailed her ice cream. So my purchase of the stuff was intended as a gag that would appeal to my sister's sense of humor. (BTW, she wasn't in some backwater country; she could get all the ice cream she wanted right there, and probably did so quite often. The fun was in the whole idea of *mailing* ice cream to her.) So, I bought two of those Space Ice Cream sandwiches they had - one to send to her, and the other to satisfy my own curiosity. I promptly put hers in the mail to a mutual friend who had e-mail, and e-mailed the friend to let her know I was e-mailing her ice cream, and that he should tell her to come and pick it up without delay once it got there (no further explanation necessary😂). As far as believing whether or not any astronaut in space had ever eaten this Space Ice Cream, any delusion of that would have been dispelled the moment I opened up my ice cream sandwich, if I had been thinking about that. I knew it was dehydrated, so I expected it to be dry, but it was crumbly and falling apart right there in the sealed package. I knew from childhood science books that talked about space flight that astronauts ate food squeezed from tubes, and I knew the reason why, so if I had bothered to think about it, I would have realized that this sort of packaged ice cream wouldn't fly. No, I mean the problem was that it *would* fly, too well, everywhere throughout the spacecraft! But, again, I wasn't interested in that. By the time I opened the package, I was much more interested in what it would taste like. So I ate it, and shared it with my wife. And the taste was... well, I wish I could say "out of this world", but *that* would be very misleading! No, it tasted like a dried-up, crunchy, cheap ice cream sandwich, which isn't surprising, because that's exactly what it was. I'm guessing my sister's ice cream sandwich arrived pretty badly crumbled up, given how carefully it would(n't) have been handled by postal workers here, there and in between.
Back when I was a kid, these were always a must buy every time I visited a science museum. Pure nostalgia.
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I remember pulling one of these out of my pocket in the middle of class in the 7th grade. Everyone reacted like I just pulled a blade out 😂
They were scared, ran away and called the police? I mean, how else would you react to someone brandishing a knife in a school? =P
@@VoidHalomag dumping with 5.56
@@VoidHalosimple: "That's not a knife, (pulls out a Roman shortsword) now THAT'S a knife!!!"
Don't care, I am almost 50 years old, I will still buy and eat this when I visit a museum! Love it!!😊
I bought a 12 pack off amazon a while back and ate it all disturbingly quickly.
@mark6302 nice!!
@@mark6302- wow, a 12 pack!
Agreed. I loved it and now I want to buy it again
Edible drywall 😂
I remember eating this stuff when I was 10 years old (Around 1982) and thinking “There’s no way astronauts are eating this stuff. It makes more crumbs than saltine crackers!” lol
I'm sad that you thought of that so long ago when you were so young...because i recently ran across someone close to my age who legitimately thought astronauts ate this bs...I've even seen people who KNOW the problem with using pencils in space but still somehow don't understand how this bs can't be taken into space.
"We chose to eat ice cream in space, and do the other things, not only when its easy but also when its a rocky road" That could have been a quote. I demand we fly this ice cream to space! Make a pouch or something for crumb control.
I ate a lot of Pillsbury Space Food Sticks when I was a kid. I think they stopped making them in the 1980s. I still drink Tang.
Actually, they remained popular in Australia, where Nestle Starz produced them until 2014. The gift shop at the Houston Aerospace Museum used to import them. They were like the sole US distributor in the 2000's. Oh, and they fired up the line again in 2019 for the 50th anniversary of Apollo 11.
The Zone Perfect Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough protein bar has a consistency and taste very similar to Space Food sticks. I’ve been known to squish them and roll them into sticks.
We always had Space Food Sticks in our house. Every flavor
Anything that had to do with space and astronauts was cool back in the 60s and 70s!
Ooooooooh, Tang... I was traumatized by that stuff. The first time I gave blood, I was very squeamish, and almost fainted. The phlebotomist took the needle out and called over one of the medical assistants, who decided I was dehydrated and needed a blood sugar boost, and so proceeded to pour 27 fluid ounces of ice-cold Tang down my throat. OK, not exactly, but they did keep handing me 9-ounce cups of the stuff and insisting I drink it, which I did. This did nothing for my feeling faint, but after 3 cups of hastily downed ice-cold Tang, I also felt nauseous and had a brain freeze. Every time I see a package of Tang, this memory comes flooding back.
Tang is good! Even at room temp, good to keep for when you are all out of tea and coke and beer.
Astronauts did never have that Space Ice Cream in space.
Why. The problem with that freezedryed ice cream is that it crumbles into small pieces that could be floating around. Something that can be dangerous to the equipment on board.
The goal for food products in space is to make as little crumbs as possible.
pretty sure that was a cover up for the fact that astronauts are lactic intolerance and they don't want to fart inside tight space
Ironically, that's also why normal ice cream is actually quite good for zero gravity - it _sticks_ to things, and primarily to itself. The blocker is in getting refrigeration up there, so it's more exclusive to permanent installations like the ISS.
@@henryptung 😁.
If you see what type of food they have, you can see that they are mostly spread like jam, chocolate spread, honey and cream cheese
Well, of course.
Everybody knows that in space, no one can eat ice cream.
@@ChrisMattern-oh6wx Actually, you can eat ice cream in space. The problem is the weight restrictions in a space launch. They have eaten ice cream on ISS a couple of times.
Freeze-dried food, including ice cream, is STILL interesting, even if it's not really "spaceman" food.
I loved this stuff as a snack when backpacking in the late 70s . Haven't had it in decades but still fondly remember the flavor
Space ice-cream is also sold as camping ice-cream. Go to any sporting goods store and look in the food section and next to the freeze dried beef stroganoff you will likely find a freeze dried ice-cream sandwich.
I worked at Oregon Freeze Dried for awhile and worked alongside the process of how they made this. It has a really interesting texture & taste but yeah it would be a nightmare in space. I'd get covered in the fine dust when emptying the carts once they came out of the industrial freeze drier.
It takes up less space once the water is removed.
Fortunately, nowadays you can buy almost any confection freeze-dried. I still love me a good ol' brick of neapolitan every few years.
Used to always get astronaut ice cream whenever I visited a space museum as a kid (and I went to A LOT of space museums as a kid). Found some in the store recently and bought it in a burst of nostalgia. Man, it tasted better when I was a kid.
These are good. But they’re a once and done type of thing. I can’t get myself to spend $5 for a broken up ice cream sandwich, which has also shrunken a little.
It's hard to have an idea of the texture when you haven't tried it. I imagine it being like the texture of the marshmallows in lucky charms. Is this so?
i mean... yeah no duh it shrank.
freeze drying kinda does that... removes most the water from the product....ergo shrinking, it's only lost water.
@@zaneyates5704 yup exactly how it taste tbh you got it spot on imagine a bigger chalkier version of that
Scam or not it’s tasty and doesn’t melt!
Freeze dried candies are good too.
I want to buy a freeze dryer but it’s going to set back as much my E bike did which was around $2000 it’s still a dream though. I probably would make the candies first. Or try Rocky road ice cream (my favorite flavor)
They lied and stole my lawn mowing money. You bastards!
you believed them?....it wasn't obvious?
@@bloodlove93 no. kind of like my joke.
WHAT?!? When did this channel come in??? That’s a hard SUBSCRIBE!
Yeah just until he starts making video on this channel only when sponsors pay up
Fry's Electronics used to have this near the checkout and randomly scattered around the store. Myth or not, it was a fun snack, and everyone always wanted a taste when you took one out. Man, I miss Fry's Electronics so much.
Tbh it'd probably be easier to eat regular ice cream in space since you could squeeze that out of a pouch.
This must be old, because I’m 40, I remember seeing this in stores during class and family trips but having no interest as it had no appeal. It would show up in places it had no business being, rendering it just another novelty product you’d see at tourist traps.
I remember as a kid my friend had ordered some of this from a novelties catalog. Possibly the Johnson Smith catalog, but I can't remember for sure. When I saw the picture and he explained what it was, I imagined what it would taste like. When he finally got it and we tried it, it tasted EXACTLY how I had imagined. Even the texture was spot on 😂.
I remember these on my 6th and 7th grade field trips. I told all of the kids back then that there was no way any one would actually eat it and they were lying to us. That stuff was gross. No astronaut would bother.
Absolutely love this stuff! And I used to claim that every museum in the world seemed to stock it, even if it made no sense -- the frigging ninja museum in Miyagi, Japan stocked it in its gift shop, for goodness' sakes! Then I encountered a museum that DIDN'T stock it, even though it would've made a lot of sense for it to do so: the Ishinomori Manga Museum in Ishinomaki, Miyagi, Japan. A museum dedicated to a manga artist who almost exclusively worked on science-fiction works involving space travel. The fact that the ninja museum sold astronaut ice cream, but a manga museum dedicated to a sci-fi manga artist didn't, blew my mind. ;)
I'm from Long Island and, back in the 80's, I'd been to Brookhaven National Lab several times on field trips. I bought Astronaut Ice Cream every time. Many years later, I was working at Petco and we got freeze dried "doggie ice cream." A co-worker and I tried it. It was Astronaut Ice Cream! We were excited because neither of us had Astronaut Ice Cream since we were kids. And yes, it had the same ingredients as Astronaut Ice Cream.
In the 70s, most of us knew the freeze-dried foods were for hiking/camping. Space Food Sticks and Tang were astronaut food. I liked them both at the time...I probably would find both disgusting now.
In Australia, we had space food sticks. I loved them. LOL.
same they were good.
So sad when they stopped them, I missed out on last time buy. Their 'replacement' is awful. I never considered that astronauts actually ate them though, I always thought it was just 'inspired' by the types of foods they would.
@@LancerGimpManOh God, the "Retro Foods" brand replacement. It was chewy, and more like a Tootsie Roll than a space food stick. I'm serious: Zone Perfect chocolate chip cookie dough protein bars. The consistency and taste are right, and the bars can be "reshaped". Not that I would do that (hearing Mom in my head, scolding me for playing with my food).
1:35. John Young. Arguably the greatest astronaut ever. “Co-pilot” of the first Gemini mission, walked on the moon as the 9th person ever to do so on Apollo 16 in 1972, and commanded the first space Shuttle mission on STS-1 Columbia. STS-1 remains the greatest test flight ever. He flew in space 6 times, 2 on Gemini, flew to the moon twice, orbited once, landed once with Apollo, and flew twice on Space Shuttle Columbia, flights 1 and 9. Flew 4 types of spacecraft, more than any other astronaut to date. And yes, despite his lengthy list of credentials, the sandwich is a big part of his legacy.
When i got a scholarship to space camp, about 1992, they sold the " Astronaut ice cream" in the gift shop and that had to be the #1 seller because everybody ate it like every day.
They have scholarships to space camp? I wish I knew that when I was a kid.
@finnmcginn9931 IDK. My elementary school used to send the overall science fair winner, boy and girl, to space camp. But I was the last year they did it, something about inclusion and not favoring privileged children? Idk.
This was during the Clinton administration so who knows. They even somehow arranged to have an Astronaut sign a photo personalized to me. I still treasure that. And a space shuttle launch happened while I was there and I got vip tickets, so great time for a kid.
Damnit, Technology Connections told me not to click on these videos. Now I'm falling down the rabbit hole.
same.
tbh, i wouldnt be too surprised if astronauts had eaten ice cream in space, but i would imagine it was from one of the aforementioned tubes, rather than as a crumbly freeze dried mess
I’m 48 and just got some a few weeks ago. And I want some more.
I grew up taking many field trips to the Space Center in Huntsville, Alabama, and these were always the one thing I wanted at the gift shop!
Don't remember when, but I remember trying it, and it being awful.
When I was a kid back around 1990, I lived at Travis AFB while my dad was serving in the Air Force. I can remember a few times when I would visit the museum they had on the base. One of the things they had at the gift shop was packets of freeze dried ice cream. I bought a few and thought that it was a peculiar taste when I first tried it, but I never forgot how the ice cream melts in your mouth. Over the years, I grew to really like it. Some many years later, I rediscovered freeze dried ice cream in the form of ice cream bars that you can buy in the sports section at Walmart. It was still as good as I remembered. Astronaut Ice Cream as I remember all those years ago can be found on Amazon if one is curious enough to try it for themselves.
What? Do they have different flavors at Wall Mart? I must investigate.
🤣 I couldn"t spell Walmart!
2:15 the routes actually start with the first ever person in space Yuri Gagarin he squeezed beef and liver paste from an aluminium tube into his mouth and for dessert Chocolate sauce using the same method. I presume that is how the USA decided on something rather similar for Mercury 3.
Still, one of my favorite treats.
Very interesting. 👍🏾
Back in Columbus Ohio they had a place called COSI.. it was like a science center and as a Kid on a field trip thats where i found The Ice cream, I loved it!! lol went back 25 yrs later and that's some of the nastiest shizzz I've tasted lol
Pretty much everything made today doesn't taste the same as it did before. It's all filled with artificial everything now.
Very cool! Can you do space food sticks?
It would actually be awful for space, because of how flakey it is. You need foods that have some moisture content and are somewhat sticky so they stay together instead of crumbling into pieces.
I remember a similar marketing strategy with Tang back around the late 70s and early 80s. As a kid at the time I of course thought it'd be cool for them to have something to do with space, but that was trivial compared with what they tasted like.
I’ve seen ISS video of them eating the true space ice cream. Apparently, they like Klondike bars because they are quite good at not generating crumbs, at least in zero G. I get the impression that they only eat them on the day of a Cargo Dragon delivery, rather spend the effort and energy to figure out how to store them. I can’t say whether or not that has happened more than once.
"A dessert but nothing like it that we were used to" 😅😂
These are so good
I think the goal may have been to show what astronauts did to their foods though freeze drying, but the company that made it took it as "this is going to space" making an entire lore by accident they don't wanna break because advertising worked.
I can tell just from the way you described this wonderful treat at the beginning... someone hurt you as a child.
Now, what about Tang? And there was also Space Food Sticks. Both were very tasty and came long before Astronaut Ice Cream. (Space Food Sticks no longer exist, but I sat in front of the TV watching moon shots and miss them>)
I ate this stuff at the National Air and Space Museum. I hated it, it was like eating chalk. Never forgot that. But maybe I'd give it another try one day.
I’m 44 and remember this at the Hickam AFB BX back in 1989 I still remember the taste😊
Even if it wasn't real Astronaut food it still made kids feel super cool when they got it. One could argue that you can't put a price on that.
Not just Yanks!
Had this at the Investigator Science Centre (South Australia)! 🇦🇺
These are available at drugstores, online - all kinds of places. They’re wonderful.
I never cared about the ice-cream that much but the dried strawberries were my favorite
Freeze drying food for space travel is also how they invented instant coffee.
I was always told it was called that because freeze dried food used to be called astronaut food in the 1950s.
I always assumed that was the only actual connection. though I don’t know if that is true either
Think is….. you absolutely could make a food for astronauts that could taste like ice cream…. It just couldn’t be the freeze dried treat….
It would have to be in the form of a paste and packaged in a tube or in a package like a ics cube trail with a peel off cover like the pretzel and nutella snack packs you get….
Honestly this looks like it ruins the flavor by completely altering the texture it's like turning Ribs into a milk, it's so beyond it's original intention it ruins the flavor profile and experience. I had this before in a non space ice cream label, felt truly like a compromise. But whatever it's for the kids.
TANG (the powdered orange drink) was a NASA developed product that became very popular.
Also bullshit
NASA didn't have anything to do with TANG's development, It was actually devoloped independently by General Mills and became publicly available in 1959. Only afterwards was it adopted by NASA, starting with the Gemini mission in 1962.
@@kutter_ttl6786 I stand corrected!
Freeze dried seems to make everything taste better. Ice cream, candy, fruit, etc. just too bad it cost so much more for what seems like a lot less
There’s something weird about the astronaut ice cream that oddly made me like it better on land than actual napoleon ice cream. Something about how processed it is, maybe
Noooooo my childhood is a lie 😢
I feel violated. Class action lawsuit anyone? For emotional distress? It's a slam dunk. Just make sure you have your original receipts from the gift shop.😋
Freeze-dried desserts are sublime.
I still have mine from space camp back in 1995
1:42 That corned beef sandwich tho
I assume anything freeze dried was "spacy" somehow, also the American public had to cope the enormous cost of the apolo program by seeing technical progress everywhere.
They always had them at space center Houston
Going as a kid on field trips.
I visited the space center in Houston a couple of months ago.
I considered buying the ice cream.
I remember being one of the kids who got to try someone else's freeze dried ice cream, Didn't like it a bit, and to this day have no interest in trying it again.I thought it tased like a solid block of cotton candy, just way toooooo much candy flavor.
Will you do a video on the making and history of chocolate Bin Bins
And shrimp cocktail was the most popular food to eat in space
Went to a science museum as a kid and bought this in the gift shop. It was tough to eat!
Freeze dried ice-cream is available in camping departments of stores. Try going to camping stores.
Here's two everyday items, one that's directly connected to the US Space program, and one that that was intended for space use. One, if you're a parent lately, are "squeez" foods, like yogurt, applesauce, and some baby foods. Not the foods themselves, but the container they come in is from the space program. The other is Ramen Noodles. The man who invented those delicious little bricks that you add hot water to and have a snack, was inspired by the space race in the 1960s, and expected his country, Japan, to enter it, so he developed something for the prospective Japanese astronauts to eat.
Ramen is ancient. Instant Ramen was created to solve world hunger. The guy who invented it even said he wanted to make a cheap food to sustain the poor. It had nothing to do with space.
US Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville Alabama always had a big display in their gift shop until this year. No where to be seen. I didn’t care for it though. Like eating Lucky Charms marshmallows.
I loved the space strawberries.
Walmart sells space ice cream sandwiches in the camping aisle.
I love freeze dried ice cream, Air Force base I lived by would sell them at their commissary I believe whenever I'd shop on base. They're fun to eat for a novelty, just taste like you're eating cardboard
The texture is what I imagine eating packing peanuts would be like. lol
If you got to go to a space museum as a kid for a field trip you were very lucky
This stuff is delicious. Amazon sells dehydrated ice cream also.
Freeze dried rather.
The flavor of food is different in space. Most food will taste terrible.
I loved this stuff growing up. It’s probably the same reason I still like Tang. 🚀
It's gone!! I can only find the sandwich now, and they suck. The freeze-dried neopolitan puck was the best thing ever. Anybody still find them? It used to be the sole reason I went into REI
Bought a pack at the Kennedy space center last year lol
Alabama space museum. Got this every time.
during the Apollo era, I remember drinking Tang and finding astronaut energy sticks in my lunch box.
you need to do your research, space ice cream was used only once in space but due to its crumbly effect they never used it again and then it was marketed in gift shops etc
Don’t forget potato chips are a nightmare in space. They’ll clog the instruments! Careful, they’re ruffled!
Why, because tooth paste tube of meat is not going to sell well. I think its about the spirit of it rather than the reality.
space ice cream honestly looks too crumbly to be in space.
561 to 303....hes trying to sell me fried ice cream...... palm beach represent
i just discovered THC freeze dried ice cream, it's interesting that's for sure
The freeze drues ice cream creates its own crumbs so I can see why it would not be allowed on space missions.
The other astronauts held out on the pilot and stashed the ice cream. Astronauts are selfish… it is known.
I liked eating these as a kid. the nostalgia, 53 here
Not the best ice cream I ever tasted, but still better than Dippin' Dots.
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Im still addicted to freeze dried ice cream. I order it online all the time.
I was that weird kid who loved the ice cream! I wanted to be an astronaut.... I did not accomplish my dreams.
Space Ice Cream was a novelty. Scam? Meh, I guess it depends on how gullible you are. In my case, authenticity wasn't on my mind at all. The first time I encountered space ice cream was in the gift shop (of course!) of the Boston Museum of Science in 1992 or '93. One of my sisters was studying abroad for a year, in a country known for getting quite hot, and when I saw the packages of Space Ice Cream, I thought she'd get a kick out of it if I mailed her ice cream. So my purchase of the stuff was intended as a gag that would appeal to my sister's sense of humor. (BTW, she wasn't in some backwater country; she could get all the ice cream she wanted right there, and probably did so quite often. The fun was in the whole idea of *mailing* ice cream to her.) So, I bought two of those Space Ice Cream sandwiches they had - one to send to her, and the other to satisfy my own curiosity. I promptly put hers in the mail to a mutual friend who had e-mail, and e-mailed the friend to let her know I was e-mailing her ice cream, and that he should tell her to come and pick it up without delay once it got there (no further explanation necessary😂). As far as believing whether or not any astronaut in space had ever eaten this Space Ice Cream, any delusion of that would have been dispelled the moment I opened up my ice cream sandwich, if I had been thinking about that. I knew it was dehydrated, so I expected it to be dry, but it was crumbly and falling apart right there in the sealed package. I knew from childhood science books that talked about space flight that astronauts ate food squeezed from tubes, and I knew the reason why, so if I had bothered to think about it, I would have realized that this sort of packaged ice cream wouldn't fly. No, I mean the problem was that it *would* fly, too well, everywhere throughout the spacecraft! But, again, I wasn't interested in that. By the time I opened the package, I was much more interested in what it would taste like. So I ate it, and shared it with my wife. And the taste was... well, I wish I could say "out of this world", but *that* would be very misleading! No, it tasted like a dried-up, crunchy, cheap ice cream sandwich, which isn't surprising, because that's exactly what it was. I'm guessing my sister's ice cream sandwich arrived pretty badly crumbled up, given how carefully it would(n't) have been handled by postal workers here, there and in between.