What Can Astronauts Eat In Space?
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 7 ก.พ. 2025
- What do astronauts EAT in space? Well, sometimes PIZZA. And chocolate cake! But also... liquid salt?
Most of the food on the International Space Station is either heat processed and ready to eat Or freeze-dried and just needs water. The lack of gravity makes assembling and eating food a bit harder…
It also means there’s certain foods they simply can’t bring! Any loose crumbs could float into equipment and damage it, so salt and pepper come in liquid form, and to avoid bread crumbs, they eat a lot of tortillas! Zero gravity also makes food behave weirdly...
As more people go to space, and for longer, we’ll need to find ways to effectively grow enough food with limited resources.
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I absolutely love your energy. It warms my heart seeing anyone this excited about science.
I know right? She is always so excited to talk about the topic and so enthusiastic :)
literally she is awesome
simps
It’s called being a good face outwards for video making
@ or she’s just genuinely interested in the content that she makes… but no it must be that her whole personality is an artificial persona that she only uses for making youtube videos, that’s the more simple and logical conclusion. You know instead of spreading bad vibes for no reason you could just, not…? crazy thought
He had cookies! Did you _see_ that? Betcha he places a pillow case over his head to eat them. So that, he doesn't get crumbs everywhere! 😂😂
That's Chris Hadfield, one of the Canadian greats, those cookies are a staple, so it doesn't surprise me that he brought them haha
One bite whole cookies lol
@hankhill4356 Nooooo, those are maple cookies. They must be dipped to be eaten right. 🤣
@zenon459 Oh, I'm Canadian & I LOVE those cookies too!
@@Digitalhunny dipped in what? I'm sure that they took that into account when sending those up.
Given these rules, if you could bring one snack to space, what would it be?
food
@@caarsFLreal
Shawarma
What about you
Red Beans and Rice (sf).
The family recipe one is heartwarming, imagining watching your son in space, bringing the family recipe to honor your ancestors and traditions ❤
Or being homesick and want some comfort ❤ if could, I'd buy my dad a freeze dryer so he can send me some of his spaghetti sauce in the mail.
boring garbage
@BotmaticsYour name suits you
@Botmaticswhat a sad life you must live through
@Botmaticswhy boring and why garbage if I may ask?
Hi, I’m not sure if I’ve commented before, but I really adore your shorts on optimistic science. We totally need it, and you’re so uplifting and excited in how you relay the facts. Thank you for bringing a little positivity and optimism into my days!
Thank you so much! I really appreciate you being here for it ❤️
hey kyle, i checked and you have commented before, i honestly relate to your comment
I actually spent 3 years of my highschool collecting data on different types of leafy greens that we would expirment on later in the school year to try to increase their biomass. It's the "Growing Beyond the Earth" FairChild Challenge. I believe it's still running to this day and I actually remember one of my classmates asking some of the astronauts in this video some questions. They were really cool and they helped explain how the data from experiments really helped them work out some the kinks of growing food in zero gravity.
Ohhh that's coool!!😊
I'm doing it now in middle school.
-Okay one order of pizza, where is your location?
“Uhh, the moon…”
Dominos sent a pizza to the ISS once
I thought it was pizza hut
@CharlesBeck-g3x maybe, i dont remember
I forgot which shuttle mission it was, but they pre-ordered a pizza in flight to be delivered to their landing site 😂
It was pizza hut @CharlesBeck-g3x
This is Vsauce Girl.
Chilli sauce girl
Not nearly insane
......or is she ?
Pretty much 😅
@@LePenseurThinksALOT moon man begins playing in the background
I will never get myself over how goofy astronauts look because all of their body is at the same pressure
Hahha
So your body isn't at same pressure right now?
@Sar--Pandey--00 well for example gravity is acting on me currently, pulling my lose skin towards the ground, if i were in an environment with no gravity i might look slightly puffy since there would be no acting forces to pull me downward.
@@pizo_225 id like to thank you for explaining that better than i couldve
@@j4747. i’m not even sure if i’m correct lol, please don’t take my word for it this is pretty anecdotal
She is basically Vsauce but a lot (and I mean a lot) less insane
She thinks AI news is positive news, that has to be some form of insanity.
@@GoodmansGhostI have to agree. Ai is becoming wayyyy to advanced for human use
@@GoodmansGhost
But it is the most positive news there is. Once general labor can be mass produced we can all live like millionaires as a baseline.
@@MrNote-lz7lhyeah except they’re focusing it more on things like art and writing and stuff instead of the manual labor
@@ezra5737because it isn’t good enough to be that yet.. that’s what they are working towards. If someone was studying cancer and trying to find a cure, but they cure another sickness while trying, they still continue to study cancer. Does that mean they are going to now focus on that new cure? No they are still going to focus on cancer research. It’s the same here, so might make pictures and write text, but thermos goal is something far more advanced.
Tortillas or other flatbread is a great idea for avoiding crumbs.
And it's a naturally isolated environment so the risk of getting infected by foreign bacteria seems limited.
But I'd probably avoid some kinds of chilies as filling, as it could change the trajectory of the space station when it wants out.
Hahahahahaha!!!!!
Maybe a good way to start moving if all else fails?
i just wanna let you know that i absolutely love your content, thank you so much for being the only person that tells me science stuff but never makes me anxious, it genuinely means so much 💖💖
I remember when Chris hadfield can to my town and my grade 5 class went to the auditorium to see him, I got called up and got to meet him in person, probably the best memory from my childhood, getting to meet an astronaut
Yoooo lucky
Not fair man
I love your channel. Such fun and interesting topics. As a PhD engineering student, we need more people like you!
Nature valley bars would be catastrophic in there
I love channels like this. Reminds me of what I loved studying as a HS kid and why I started working toward MechEng degree (as slow as it's been).
They can freeze dry family recipes?!?! That makes sense. I now plan to go to space. ❤
You can freeze dry most foods
I don't know how the other space programs do it, but NASA is very accommodating towards astronaut food requests. If they want to bring something into space to eat, a team of engineers will be tasked with figuring out how to make it work in space.
Just imagine what it'll feel like when liquid pepper enters your eyes in space😂
This is just so crazy to think about. Gravity can sometimes be a bitch but imagine having everything floating. That’d be so much worse.
That is more or less like to be a fish...
I am just waiting for entire space greenhouses to be built in next-Gen space stations and habitats
So Dr. Stone wasn't bs-ing when byakuya brought ramen into the space station
Is there a full length to this? This is the kind of stuff I randomly think about when I can’t fall asleep and it’s nice to have answers 😂
Those maple syrup cookies are amazing
Gotta love this channel ❤❤
Liquid form salt and pepper blows my mind away
“This is uhh our family recipe” that sounded so funny😂😂😂
Can u make a video on what happens to fluids(like gastric acid) inside the astronauts?
More interesting would be gases within the intestines. Fluids follow the normal path long the intestines.
I m just speechless by the way she speaks and energy she had while speaking
😅
No way Chris Hadfield appearance
Please please ✨PLEASE✨ interview/do a video with Chris Hatfield! So much knowledge and life experience. And I’m Canadian so I’m extra biased. Last I knew he teaches at the University of Waterloo (which is where I did my undergrad, so additionally biased).
PS: I think you’d find the nano building at UW really cool! Especially the “orange” rooms. I can’t remember what it’s technically called but it’s very cool physics stuff. Look into it if you ca! I think it could definitely be part of another awesome video.
PSS: There’s also a piano hidden in the basement. And many buildings are connected by tunnels and bridges.
All the best! 😊 Keep highlighting positive science!
"What do astronaut in space. Eat" why was that soo long
This is why I subscribed thanks yn
*Applebee's makes their meals in exactly the same fashion*
I would pay good money to listen to Adam Sandler review and Applebee's with freeze-dried food.
Most the time, they mainly eat military MREs, it’s the easiest thing to eat an entire meal, and even tho some of the stuff can be outdated, the main course is always good. I want to go to space just to see what it would be like, it seems so cool
Remember that time when an astronaut had a gorilla costume in space
Fun fact: the first man in the video is Chris Hadfield, one of the most famous astronauts of all time and (IIRC) the first Canadian in space. He has a TH-cam channel he started around the early 2010s, from SPACE, where he spent the next few years documenting different answers to questions about space during his last few trips before he retired.
He was not the first Canadian in space
Amazing energy and she is always very excited about advances in science and things that actually matter. Wish there were more women who cared about these things that looked and acted like you.!! 😊
Hi Gurl! I love your Channel
You actually Post good content😂
Have a nice day
Imagine the chaos a single nature valley bar would cause
Of course I wanna learn more! Your channel is inspiring
I always love the story of the insane amount of money spent to figure out how to bring kimchi into space for the first Korean on the ISS.
Really enjoy your channel!! Science is awesome!! :)
That’s it. I can’t wait any longer. I’ve waited so long.
+1sub ❤
I love chili 🌶️ ❤
Hold on. I never noticed that tortillas tend to crumb up less. I love them and I never noticed
I have a question, can the foods be easily eaten or not? I'm thinking that maybe the food might get stuck in the throat.
Actually, it's probably mostly like here on earth!
Gravity is not the thing doing the swallowing, the muscles on your throat are. That's why you can swallow even while upsidedown (wouldn't recommend it tho)
We need a vsauce collab
I think thats so sweet and amazing that he brought his family recipe to space! I would be honored
There was a case of chips getting into equipment and messing everything else but a brave man saved the day
as a small-time indoor gardener, i would love to try to go to the space station and see how watering the plants would go, or how a 45min-45min day-night cycle would affect the plants' growing. and plants need some stress otherwise theyre just too weak and fall apart, so would the lack of gravity kill them? or would simulated wind be able to do the job? or would we have to genetically modify the plants to be stressed with no external stress? damn, now im sitting here thinking about designing a grow-room space station module 😂😂 theoretically you could make a fully glass "greenhouse" module (but then theres no ozone layer to deal with most of the UV so there would have to be a special coating on the glass), and it would have a long tunnel through the middle of it, maybe for slight storage of nutrients/soil/etc, or maybe some screens to monitor humidity, soil moisture of each plant, etc. and you come out the far end from the station into the greenhouse area, and that inner tunnel is just for efficient packing of the plants because otherwise the middle space would just be wasted and wouldnt get much light anyway, so if you put the plants on the "wall" of the tunnel, you can also have a few smaller racks here and there on the "north" and "south" wall for more space, and i say north and south because im imagining this on the back of the space station facing toward the sun, and since the iss corrects itself to maintain the correct orientation toward earth the east and west walls would still get direct sunlight.
man i want to get high on the ISS, thatd be so fire 😂 just floating around hitting the bong and looking down at earth and thinking "dude, every human thats ever lived has been here, nearly everything we know, just from this planet, imagine what else is out there just waiting until we're ready to explore it"
I installed my hydroponics last at my desk 1 week ago. Most of them rooted, two of them fervently sprouting 🌱
Single cell proteins or edible algae will be best for growing in space they are extremely efficient at converting minerals in soil to edible organic matter
And need little space or resources
This remembers me that Space Force episode where they argue why spend that much money to send a orange to space. Very touching.
Just realized there are thousands of astronauts out there bragging because they were the first to eat “insert food item here” in outer space 😂❤
I DO want to learn more about this!!!😀😀😀
I actually did a project on growing food in outer space so I had to literally grow seeds that had been in 0 gravity. Most of them weren’t growing properly but there were a few that did very well
I have a question, see the way you have to be careful while eating due to no gravity, does your stomach acid cause any harm, would it potentially go out of your mouth?
No
Just fun to see all your enthusiasm uyou have and those hand movements and body language.❤❤❤
Cleo your energy is infectious. You dont need to ask us to subscribe. We will do it anyways
you're awesome ❤
This almost makes me wish I could be an astronaut
Rocking an X-Men top! I love it!
I'm glad someone else noticed, every time I see that X-Men #1 (1991) cover, I get nostalgic because I had the whole run.
No crumbly food is allowed? Damn, I can’t have burgers in space. 🫠
By that standard, it looks like I couldn't have a PB&J sandwich either.
a burrito would be allowed it seems, as long as its wrapped good lol
As soon as I heard “chocolate cake” I smelt it in my imagination somehow.
Honestly can we get the liquid salt and pepper? It would be so easy for it to dissolve into the food.
go online. look it up. buy it
I feel pride cause the idea for tortillas was from our first Mexican astronaut.
🎉🎉🎉
Aren't there Vacuum Sealed Noodles too??? I would bring that, or do I just watch too much Dr. Stone💀?.
Love your videos. . ❤❤
Is it possible to use microscopic green algae in space to produce super food and oxygen.
Wait a second
Space travel will be impossible without artificial gravity.
Hear me out. Roots of plants always grom toward gravity. So without it, they might not grow which will cause the plant to die as it cannot absorb water.
I am not onto anything its just what i think
Imagine this guy's mom turning up to the Kennedy's space center with a pot of chili and asking the desk personell to pop it in the dehydrator 😅
This is definitely the typa stuff I'm interested in. FOOD! _and space_
I wanna become an astronaut now that looks so cool!
Imagine eating a shrimp and chicken pizza in space. That is going to be quite wild
oh boy i can’t imagine the feeling of being SO far away from home and getting to eating food made by family
My grandpa sent carrots to space and it was one of his proudest achievements!
hope we get a full video on space cuisine in the future! 😃
After knowing that plants uses gravity to determinate the direction roots and leaves grow, I became very intrigued to understand how they can grow in zero gravity. Care to explain? I would love to watch it ❤
Girl where did you get that rocking X-men seater!?!😍😍
Oh, did anyone else realize we may be able to have a higher yield of food in a low gravity environment. Less struggle for leaves to find light, heavy foods won't damage a vine or themselves, etc. I'd like to see that
I would love to see you talk more about this!! I worked on the Green Gate/Kennedy project with Dr. Massa when it was first starting!
I don’t know why I’ve never thought about astronauts rehydrating their freeze dried food
I just love zero gravity food😂
Artificial gravity would be the best thing for earth food in space. Even if it's just a section of any space station that has artificial gravity, the benefit would be enormous for space travel.
They should make a garden that spins around fast enough to mimic earth gravity on the outside of the ring and then a robotic arms that is spinning at the same speed can pick the food
I would imagine it’s more efficient to just bring food rather than bring the supplies to grow food.
Now I’m just imagining a pizza delivery guy trying to make is to the ISS in less than 30 minutes 😂
I reeeeaaaallllyyy appreciate this video!
Yo wait chat, i have an idea, they should make a small extension to the iss where the astronauts can eat what they want (thats been preserved and stuff) without worrying about crumbs and stuff floating into important machinery (sadly might not happen cause the iss is being planned on getting decomissioned sometime in the future)
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Growing food is the least of the issues they have to overcome
What happened to the Toppings on pizzas?
I love your videos. We need about 100-200 tissues culture planets to do experiments growing in space. Also using modern growing equipment using led with full spectrum. The tissue culture allows you to store large libraries of plant species. Also I looked up Martian the movie how to create water. I think it’s possible it bring large canisters and make water over a period of time. I just don’t know if the canisters will make it to a space station and the process of making water.
The great thing about plants is that seeds are super stable! People have seen seeds hold up really well to long periods in space so you can avoid the troubles of liquid cultures and go straight from seed to seed using hardware already on ISS like the Veggie or the advanced plant habitat
Just call Amir to deliver the food.
“Heat processed and ready to eat” Cleo o think that just means cooking with extra steps
"This is family recipe"
That was way too sweet lol
i will keep my dream of going into space in a box until someone invent artificial gravity...
I want a whole video about the liquid salt and pepper!
If you grow food in space wouldn’t the soil particles be a problem? I have done gardening, dirt and soil gets everywhere!
Did you know the pizza was by pappajohns and dominoed sent it up on a fslcon 9 in 2015
Those maple cookies SLAP
i nearly ate a whole box without realizing