EXTRA

HOW TOILETS WORK IN SPACE

Laika first dog to orbit the Earth

Laika was sent into space in

November 1957 and was
first living being to orbit the
Earth on Sputnik 2.
First food in space Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin was the first
human to travel into outer space. He
made his voyage in the Vostok
spacecraft and made a complete orbit
of the Earth on April 12, 1961. He ate
his food from tubes, squeezing it out
just like you'd squeeze out toothpaste.
His main meal was a tube of beef and
liver paste, and his dessert was a
chocolate sauce.
 First person to vomit in space

Soviet Cosmonaut named German Titov,

had eaten two meals during his flight in
1961, and had vomited it all back up.
 Who makes it?

The Space Food Systems

Laboratory at the Johnson Space
Center develops the menus and
packages food for NASA, CSA, and
ESA astronauts.

The Russian Federal Space

Agency (ROSCOSMOS) makes
its own food for cosmonauts.
 Astronauts
menu

The astronauts have four meals a day:

first breakfast, second breakfast, lunch
and supper. The doctors say this is best
for the assimilation of food by the
organism. The daily consumption in
terms of calories is 3,200. Today every member of the spaceship
crew can choose what he wants to eat.
 Can I eat it?

- Yes, you can.

You can buy astrounauts food online

or in Roscosmos shop in Russia.
How to wash your hands in space
Modern space food
 Sophisticated space food

Starting from Apollo missions this space

water system provided both hot and
cold water for the preparation of food.
Spinach in space
Space pizza
 Emergency space food system

If the Apollo spacecraft

cabin should become
depressurized, the
astronauts would have
to live in their
spacesuits and would
not be able to eat solid
foods. This Contingency
Feeding System, carried
on Apollo 11, would
have allowed an
astronaut to eat liquid
foods through a small
port in their helmet.

Beginning with Apollo 13, a canteen was added to the astronauts spacesuits that would allow
the crew members to drink while they worked on the moon. Attached by a Velcro strip to the
inside of the helmet neck ring of a lunar spacesuit, an astronaut could dip his head down to
drink water or reconstituted juice through the small rubber straw.
 DOES FOOD TASTES THE SAME IN SPACE?

Scientists say no.

In the weightless environment, food
aromas don't quite make it to the nose.
Because smell is a big part of taste,
astronauts miss out on a lot of the
foods' flavors. Weightlessness also
causes fluids to accumulate in the
astronauts' upper body, giving them
perpetual stuffy noses. If you've ever
tried to eat when you had a cold, you
know that congestion makes for very
bland tasting food.
Space food in the movies
Alien Director Cut (1983)
Star Trek (1966-
1969)
 Gravity (2013)

Two astronauts work together to

survive after an accident which leaves
them stranded in space.
Oblivion (2013)

A veteran assigned to extract

Earth's remaining resources
begins to question what he
knows about his mission and
himself.
 Interstellar (2014)

A team of explorers travel through a

wormhole in space in an attempt to
ensure humanity's survival.
Passengers (2016)
Life (2017)
A team of scientists aboard
the International Space
Station discover a rapidly
evolving life form that caused
extinction on Mars and now
threatens all life on Earth.
The Cloverfield Paradox (2018)
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