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.

Scientists are exploring the possibility of turning asteroid material into a viable food source for astronauts on long ... to begin testing the concept with real meteorite material in the near ...

When you think of space food, you might think of a very basic dehydrated or tube based meal that you have to quickly scoff before it floats away. In reality, the way astronauts eat and the variety ...

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 ...

Until the day we can reliably grow many types of food in space, or that Milliways, that five-star eatery at the end of the universe is operational, astronauts and other space-bound travelers will ...

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.