Thanksgiving in Space: Playing with food animals

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Div Class = “yshortcuts” Thanksgiving dinner does not necessarily mean skimping on the stuffing from the turkey or not, even on board the International Space Station. The three crew members, who arrived just in time to enjoy a stay in weightlessness in orbit, you can enjoy a feast of irradiated smoked turkey and yams subjected to heat treatment, while floating 220 miles (354 km) above Earth tomorrow (November 24).

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Around the table will be NASA astronaut Dan Burbank and Russian cosmonauts Anatoli Anton Shkaplerov and Ivanishin. The trio arrived at the station class = “yshortcuts” space Tuesday (Nov. 22), and are programmed to live and work aboard the station until March . Your time will be spent conducting experiments and preparing for the arrival of new commercial cargo ship.

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one important ingredient missing? The family.

“We’re going to lose family and friends at home, I hope we will have the chance to talk to them,” said Burbank

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Yet the astronaut has a lot of your list of gratitude.

“We will enjoy good food, we will enjoy views of Earth from here , we’ll be real grateful for the opportunity we have to fly aboard the space station beautiful, and we are grateful for the love and support of all the people we have at home, “said Burbank.

Although members of the team will not be able to nod in recognition to his family and friends, the party will be a reminder of home. “The food we eat in space has a very similar taste to the food we enjoy on Earth “, a former occupant of a space station, NASA astronaut class =” yshortcuts “ Clay Anderson , said that from the ground.

The trickiest part of preparing a Thanksgiving meal space has to do with life: Without food refrigerator or freezer space station, the food should last at room temperature for long periods of time, NASA food scientist Vickie Kloeris said, manager of power system of the space station. Therefore thermostabilize lyophilized and food. Thermostabilizing involves preheating the food to kill bacteria.

Beat a meal with family and friends can be difficult, but the space station has something grandmother has not, and that microgravity.

“It is legal to play with food in space,” said Anderson SPACE.com, adding that astronauts can turn the food floating in the bucket, which is “fun.” And Anderson know. He spent 152 days living aboard the station in 2007, back to the station in 2010 As a member of shuttle mission STS-131.

During his stay, he said, he ate all the food served at Thanksgiving , although it was at the station the day of turkey or href rel = “nofollow”> Christmas in space .

The astronauts may find themselves in the same turkey coma that people on Earth. Anderson said the same things in microgravity is tempting. “I ate like a pig when I was there,” he said , “and still lose weight.”

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