Many of the foods were stored in plastic pouches and aluminum cans with pop tops. Skylab also had a small refrigerator/freezer and for the first time, astronauts ate real ice cream. By the way ...

is the food. As a certified foodie, those rehydrated bowls of mush just don’t do it for me, and I’ve always wondered if astronauts in real life are still subjected to this tasteless mush.

Astronaut food vs. real food definitely leaves something to be desired, but it’s improving every day. Researchers know that if astronauts had to eat applesauce and tortillas for the entirety of ...

The ground on Mars is full of nitrogen, a vital component for planet life, raising hopes that it might be more hospitable than it appears — but Martian soil is also dense and clay-like, the ...

NASA traces the first crew celebration of Thanksgiving to 1973 when astronauts on the Skylab space station marked the holiday. That crew didn’t have any special Thanksgiving-themed food items ...

He's also one of the few astronauts to arrive back on Earth with a few extra pounds. He told Business Insider why he liked the food so much and some of the obstacles he ran into trying to eat in ...

As far as eating in space, the astronauts agreed fresh food on the station was a treat. Hoburg had a favorite kitchen snack in the station’s food lab. “I was a big fan of making tacos,” he said.