Irradiated smoked turkey? Check. Thermo-stabilized candied yams? Present. Freeze-dried cornbread dressing? Of course! This is what the American astronauts aboard the ISS will be feasting on today.
Every year, U.S. astronauts aboard the ISS sit down to a special Thanksgiving meal. But, as International Space Station Food System Manager Vickie Kloeris explains in the video below, the astronauts don’t get a special meal delivered to them—instead, they have to piece one together from the supplies that are already aboard the space station.
https://gizmodo.com/irradiated-turkey-and-thermo-stabilized-yams-what-the-5962686
So, much like last year—when the picture above was taken—and the year before that, the menu will be predictably familiar. And yet it looks so appetizing. Right? [NASA]
Image by NASA
