Astronaut holiday: stiff meat, bland yams

[unhappycamper]

Astronaut holiday: stiff meat, bland yams
By Mike Schneider - The Associated Press
Posted : Thursday Nov 27, 2008 14:57:59 EST

HOUSTON — The smoked turkey resembles sliced deli meat, but stiffer. The candied yams are bland inside. The green beans taste like they’ve been microwaved to death. And the corn bread stuffing has a broth-heavy, institutional flavor.

Grandma’s home cooking, it’s not.

Then again, Grandma’s Thanksgiving dinners were never irradiated, freeze-dried, vacuum-packed into plastic pouches and then launched into space to be served 220 miles above Earth. That’s what the Turkey Day meals for the astronauts aboard space shuttle Endeavour have endured.

Endeavour’s seven astronauts and the three crew members at the international space station will take a break from their chores and gather for their special meal Thanksgiving Day. The last time a space shuttle crew ate their holiday meal in space was six years ago.

“It gives us a moment to pause and reflect just how fortunate we are as a country and as global community,” Endeavour commander Christopher Ferguson said from the space station. “We’re thankful for that, in addition to the opportunity to fly in space.”


Rest of article at: http://www.armytimes.com/news/2008/11/ap_thanksgivinginspace_112708/%2e

[LittleApple81]

1. The title of the OP sounds slightly obscene,,, effects of day after Thanksgiving on poster? nt

[geckosfeet]

2. If I was stuck inside a tin can suspended in a nearly complete vacuum

I would be happy to alive much less having something to eat.

Gotta admire their endurance under those circumstances.

[Historic NY]

3. Hey it could have been worse...