Real space food vs fake space food

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[@morgansinclair6318]

Another problem with pencils is graphite is conductive, and you really REALLY don't want all those little bits shorting something out.

[@kilianortmann9979]

Exactly, the Soviets replaced graphite with grease pencils and then eventually just bought Fisher Space pens.

[@generalrubbish9513]

Apollo 1 burnt down and killed its crew and they didn't even get off the ground - they were just testing the capsule and had an electrical short. Granted, it wasn't caused by pencil graphite, but after an early experience like that, it's no wonder NASA would rather develop a special space pen than risk any more electrical accidents.

[@rogink]

Lead would have been better.

[@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721]

@@kilianortmann9979 That was the real moment the Americans won the Space Race.

[@peter_smyth]

@@generalrubbish9513 I think the capsule also head an oxygen-enriched atmosphere inside (more than the usual 21 %), so the inside burned very quickly. But the short had to be there to start the fire.

[@moosh9521]

In the marketing team's defense, astronaut ice cream is probably what you'd get if an astronaut took regular ice cream into the vacuum of space, rather than something astronauts eat on the space station

[@skeetsmcgrew3282]

Has anyone ever tried that I wonder? Taking food on a spacewalk to see if it freeze dries? Useless experiment sure, but fun!

[@clausroquefort9545]

@@skeetsmcgrew3282 you would have to build a special box to shield it from radiation

[@515aleon]

Was never taken--except as he describes. There mylar wrapped small pieces of crunchy or chewy things (sort of like a small candy bar, caramel) that you could pop in your mouth whole). I don't think they eat in the suits when they go "outside" (they have a drinking tube--but just water). Hey I'm a nerd!

[@ImieNazwiskoOK]

@@clausroquefort9545 Not really? Just a metal box and like, radiation in space isn't that bad. But I think it may be preferable for it be opened when it's already outside (so the water and some other stuff from ice cream doesn't cause any problems).

[@ImieNazwiskoOK]

@@515aleon From what I know currently they eat before/after. But for a time when shuttles wre a thing there were small bars wrapped in edible rice-paper held in the helmet.

[@AlexsMemeDump]

That may be true Adam, but remember that Homer Simpson successfully ate an entire bag of potato chips on the Space Shuttle and everyone landed safely

[@drewhomeyer2889]

Inanimate carbon rod for president!

[@kilgoretrout8896]

Common Homer W

[@timg2727]

Aww, they were about to show closeups of the rod.

[@billmalcolm4291]

Yeah, but he only got to go up by de fault.

[@jake9705]

"Save the queen!" "I'm the queen!" "No you're not!"

[@null_ham]

man i love explosively decompressed ice cream

[@ffc2632]

explosive diarrhea

[@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721]

Ice cream is ice cream, no matter how compressed it is.

[@lihchong2267]

The McFlurry machine broke down again, this time catastrophically.

[@ebbyc1817]

I thought you were going to say, "mannn I love the taste of overly decompressed ice cream in the morning" ☺️

[@RandomStupidFurry]

572 likes and 3 comments? Let me fix that!

[@ercedwrds]

The freeze dried fruit in the early 90s MREs was the GOAT of all MRE desserts. I will die on this hill. By day 15 of a field problem it was the only thing I had to look forward to.

[@ericpmoss]

The crunchy potato cakes had their moments, too.

[@515aleon]

The comments are as fun to read as the video is to watch (with one or two mean exceptions- love this!)

[@xINVISIGOTHx]

In the last few years I've found some amazing freezedried fruit packets at Dollar Tree, apples, strawberries, peaches, and other fruits like that

[@hallaloth3112]

@@xINVISIGOTHx Freezedried Apple slices made such a good snack.

[@ercedwrds]

@@ericpmoss OMG, those were like McDonald's hash browns. I remember them now. I never ate them dry. Did you just raw dog them out of the package?

[@Astrocat-od5cy]

So I love looking into this topic so here's all the things that I know: First space food was stored in what are essentially toothpaste tubes. The food had to be blended into a liquid or paste so for things like applesauce that was fine but for other menu items like "Meat and vegetable stew" it was a lot more gross. The metal tubes also tended to be heavier than the foods inside. They moved on to using freeze dried foods later and also food cubes. Food cubes were special as they could be eaten without any preparation and were used to supplement the regular freeze dried menu. The food cubes were also generally quite dry but were coated in oil or gelatin to prevent crumbing, and were bite sized so an entire piece could fit into your mouth. These new types of food also offered an expanded menu, and during the Apollo missions, the astronauts even got a hot water dispenser so the freeze dried meals could be enjoyed while warm. After the Apollo missions, each mission had a freezer onboard and so they could just eat real ice cream instead of the freeze dried stuff. The shuttle missions were the first to introduce fresh foods. Fruits like bananas, oranges, apples, and vegetables like celery and carrots were brought up. However, bananas and oranges had to be discontinued on later flights as it was found that the smell would permeate the space shuttle cabin and astronauts would associate the queasiness from microgravity to the smell of the fruits. Nowadays the food has gotten a lot better. Yes they do have the freeze dried stuff, and the stuff that resembles military rations, but they also have fresh foods and shelf stable foods that you'd be able to find in a regular grocery store. Astronauts have condiments (salt and pepper in liquid form, hot sauce, etc). There is even a coffee machine on the ISS that is able to brew a fresh cup of coffee in the microgravity environment of the space station. Also you mentioned that astronauts can't eat bread, but you didn't mention that the bread substitute is tortillas. Also, these tortillas are provided to NASA by Taco Bell, because Taco Bell was able to develop a tortilla with a long shelf life of 12 (!!!) months. Anyway that's all the space food fun facts I have for now. Thank you for reading. If you're interested in finding out more there's a whole wikipedia article here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_food

[@AdamIbsais]

Chat gpt said hi

[@krankarvolund7771]

To be fair, I watched some videos of people eating military rations, and it doesn't look bad. Just a balanced diet of microwavable meals, it's not hardtack anymore XD

[@Astrocat-od5cy]

@@krankarvolund7771 not all are created equal lol. Some of them are good but others make me gag thinking about the smell or flavor

[@superslash7254]

@@krankarvolund7771 Most genuine MREs are pretty unhealthy for long term consumption because they're meant for soldiers in the field. Someone performing enormous amounts of extreme physical labor from sunrise to sunset is going to have significantly different dietary needs than a normal person living and working in normal circumstances. Actual combat rations are even more extreme, being something roughly the size of a burrito with nearly an entire day's worth of calories in it on top of some pretty extreme salt content.

[@eritain]

One more space food fun fact. You don't need gravity to swallow, but you do need gravity to construct a proper belch. A spaceworthy soda fountain was flown on the shuttle once, but without gravity to separate gas from liquid in your stomach, the pleasant tingle of a fizzy drink going down was followed all too soon by a quite unpleasant experience which NASA politely named "wet burps." And one MRE fun fact, to round things out. MREs are designed to be constipating, because the stress of combat tends to have the opposite effect.

[@Moonlightatnight2]

Fisher pens are great for field notes though. Use them on a page from a Write in the Rain notebook and you can make legible notes while the paper and pen are underwater.

[@draconious4005]

Amazing pens. Write upside down, under water, in extreme heat, extreme cold, and yes, in space

[@TheAkashicTraveller]

I did find out the hard way that they stop writing when wet or underwater before they stop writing when dry. I guess when almost empty it's just that little bit easier for it to work when dry.

[@Psilomuscimol]

I saw that on a documentary underwater once

[@slerch123]

When I was in 10th grade biology, our teacher was teaching us about peristaltic motion and asked for a volunteer. He had me stand on my head, take a bit of something and swallow. I've never forgotten what peristaltic motion is or how it works.

[@JaLynnTardisGeek]

Our biology teacher in high school did something similar, but he did a headstand on a lab table and drank a glass of water. He also made mayo in class when we were learning about solutions, colloids and mixtures, and his chemistry class regularly involved fire and exploding stuff. Fun guy!

[@Seboy666]

I did that too! I was just happening to be eating a protein bar during class so the teacher picked me to demonstrate 😅

[@skeetsmcgrew3282]

Fun fact, friend if mine had a premature baby and she requires a food pump. The pump is a very basic peristaltic pump, so they use peristalsis to put it in her and she uses peristalsis to get it out of her 🤣

[@michaeltaylors2456]

Thank you for bringing up another interesting space fact to consider. How peristaltic motion would work in space ? How about our inner ears, semicircular canals. They require gravity to work. Should be a non stop drunken spinning vomiting nightmare the entire time in orbit. Just wondering.

[@Seboy666]

@@michaeltaylors2456 I'm not so sure. Zero G can take a while to get accustomed to, sure, but you're not spinning the entire time. The inner ear wouldn't be in constant motion.

[@nicholasricardo8443]

Would love if you could also talk about MRE's in some video, or maybe just food for combat in general. Seems like it would be a great "Old Man Ragusea talks about history and food" video

[@mrunderscorecool]

steve MRE crossover???

[@devam493]

nice, mkay@@mrunderscorecool

[@schmules101]

I agree! What’s MRE?

[@WonderWaffleNin616]

@@schmules101 Meals Ready to Eat. Essentially similar stuff to what was shown in this video, except for militaries, rations for disasters, etc. Food that can last a long while and still be edible with just water and something to warm it back up.

[@FacePomagranate]

@@mrunderscorecool I need Adam to explain what causes a nice hiss

[@davidbeddoe6670]

I got a pack of "space ice cream" for my 13th birthday. I finally ate it when I was 27. It was pretty good.

[@cs8712]

turns out the real space was the volume it occupied along the way

[@Kratosauron0]

MREs are pretty cool from a food science perspective; I'd definitely like to learn more about those

[@515aleon]

Sounds right up Adam Raguesa's channel, I think. I doubt he reads all these though.

[@Fred_the_1996]

Not in terms of taste though, i had a french MRE a while ago and it was honestly terrible. Maybe thats because i'd never really eaten french food before and i'm not used to the flavours, but still, pretty bad

[@appa609]

MRE's are terribly designed from a mass budgeting/volume packing perspective. I'm astounded nobody has fixed this considering the stuff civilian hikers have nowadays.

[@FrostyNuggetTheCool]

@@Fred_the_1996I mean it also depends what the main meal wouldn’t it? Of course it isn’t definitely the same as one you could make as home of the food items or get at home

[@isaacl.r4609]

Dude ive NEVER eaten freeze-dried ice cream and now i just NEED to try it

[@skyhawk_4526]

It's actually pretty tasty with in interesting light airy and crunchy texture. I remember it was a kid camping when I was a boy scout. It's sold in some hiking/camping stores.

[@d3ltabrav0]

Yogurt is also amazing freeze dried treat.

[@vinstinct]

I thought it was disappointing as a kid.

[@stockicide]

Wal-Mart sells it, but it's in the camping section, not the normal grocery section. Don't get your hopes up about the flavor though, it's actually kind of bland.

[@f.d.6667]

Meh, the stuff is like super-sweet Styrofoam...

[@thefisherking78]

Also, the _entire_ point of freeze-dried food is saving weight by letting you rehydrate it with plentiful water at your destination. If you have to carry that water with you, freeze drying and rehydrating is just extra work.

[@Psilomuscimol]

Yea

[@Psilomuscimol]

It's cool for us terrestrial fellows

[@HALLish-jl5mo]

Space Stations can recycle water, but not food. On the Space Shuttle and Apollo missions, hydrogen and oxygen were sent up as fuel for fuel cells that then became water later in the mission. Its a legitimate way to save launch mass. And so obviously dehydrated food has been flown, you can Google this. Finally, dehydrated food lasts longer than wet food, so you weren't even correct about the entire point being saving on launch mass.

[@timmccarthy9917]

As a DC-area kid who visited the Air & Space probably 20 times through my childhood, I approve this message.

[@jaewol359]

As another sort of DC-Area kid who’s been there many times, absolutely. It’s fun seeing places I recognize in other videos.

[@tyrannosaurusimperator]

I went once. It's the most overrated museum I've ever been to. The gift shop was probably the most interesting thing there and that was only due to sticker shock. The rest was something along the lines of: "Look, it's the Original Wright Flyer*" * Except that the canvas, engine, struts, and everything else visible is a replica. "Look, if you squint really hard and are a giant, you can see Apollo 11 over the crowds that constantly swarm it."

[@kindlin]

Did you approve _this_ message, or also messages similar to this one?

[@stockicide]

@@tyrannosaurusimperator When I went, they also had a moon rock and several used spacesuits. Plus, admission is free. It's hard for a museum to be overrated when you can see items from beyond Earth for free, IMO.

[@evann-t2915]

Not from DC, but my father is and his parents still live there; I’ve probably been there about a dozen times so i can relate

[@DCSL]

Those last 10 seconds made me feel all the feels

[@alkaliaurange]

I loved it

[@magicvibrations5180]

I don't know why but I enjoyed this video to a higher degree than normal. Maybe the joyful optimism. Maybe because space stuff is rad.

[@joannasunday]

I totally agree

[@TheThomNorth]

I am more and more convinced that I love this channel because Adam seems like an older version of myself. Food, archeaology, music theory and space- those are literally my prime interests. Thank you for all the content, and thank you for being relatable to all the outsider kids like I was!

[@515aleon]

Oh love this comment a lot! Though in my case he is younger me. :D He's way smarter than I ever was though.

[@thecalham]

Dude brings his kids back stuff from business trips those are the gifts I always remember for some reason

[@thomgizziz]

Stop thinking that you are special... it will help a lot with you being an outsider, because you decided to be that way, smh

[@515aleon]

@@thecalham Best dad ever-- would have loved that stuff.

[@jwaaron2011]

As a fellow lifelong fan of space exploration, this video had me grinning the entire time. Thanks for this one!!

[@jwaaron2011]

Oh - and Live Long and Prosper!

[@superfortressstudios]

I love freeze dried ice cream, it's great (and can be gotten cheaply at hiking goods stores)

[@pjhusa]

I came across these in a gift shop literally last week, and suddenly, childhood memories came rushing back. I think it’s been 10 years since I previously saw a package of space ice cream, so this video was pretty timely…

[@draconious4005]

Oh man, I love the Russian Space Pencil story. Not for any merit to the actual story, but because it’s probably the single greatest example of the Russian cultural phenomenon of smekalka. Smekalka translates into something like “native wit”. As a cultural phenomenon, it effectively espouses that Russians as a culture have a unique ability to come up with effective, simple solutions to complex problems. The Space Pencil shows that smekalka is so ingrained in Russian culture that it even manifests in outside stereotypes about the culture.

[@hxhdfjifzirstc894]

Ah, that's interesting... I didn't know what that phenomenon was called... 'смекалка', but it certainly is a thing. The American equivalent is called 'Yankee ingenuity', although it seems to be fading, in the culture.

[@Hellifyoudont66]

@@hxhdfjifzirstc894 "Redneck Engineering" seems to be what I've always heard. Like how the most successful moonshiners in the American Appalachians during our Prohibition era were all backwoods hillbillies that by most other metrics of intelligence would probably come up short, something about simple people thinking simple to solve problems seems to be fairly universal. Definitely something to be praised and I wish we had a singular word for it, even if it may still be compounded.

[@Tavares0709]

We have something similar here in Brazil, we call it "The Brazilian little way" ("O jeitinho Brasileiro") though it is many times used jokingly (to criticise badly built infrastructure, for example).

[@BlackLotusVisualArchive]

@@hxhdfjifzirstc894 The southern version is called "Redneck Engineering" lol

[@p_serdiuk]

Smekalka is kinda taken seriously in Russia itself, but outside of Russia it's often ridiculed because most of those "solutions" aren't actually smart, they are more akin to jerry-rigging or bodging something together or being very blind to risks. Which seems to be the case for similar terms across the world; Russians are weird because they genuinely believe this talent is limited to them and is thought of positively.

[@austinberry3299]

My dad was in the air force and worked at offut AFB in the early 90s which is basically right with SAC which also has a great museum. I remember being only maybe five years old and he brought some special astronaut ice cream home for the kids and we absolutely loved it. The idea worked as intended even though it wasn’t actually astronaut food.

[@EPMTUNES]

Awesome video! What I think is a similar story is that of Dippin Dots, the ice cream company. You see them everywhere but they were on the brink of bankruptcy a few years ago. What keeps them afloat, not so appetizingly, is using the same techniques to process fuel. Its worth looking into if you're interested.

[@ZekeFreek]

They're also contracted by all the fake meat companies to make tiny frozen globules of fat so their fake meat actually tastes like something. Funny to think Dippin' Dots is now a side hustle for Dippin' Dots.

[@Croz89]

And, surprisingly, vegan meat substitutes. They can make little spheres of fat to make them taste better.

[@LonkinPork]

Shoutout to Wendover/HAI's video (I don't remember which of the two channels it was on) about Dipp'n Dots

[@keithkannenberg7414]

Dippin Dots, the ice cream of the future. And always will be...

[@zainali026]

Hey Adam! I work at NASA and am a huge fan of your channel! My roommate also works here and is a huge cook and fan of your channel too! (He literally keeps a bottle of white wine in our fridge 24/7). Love your enthusiasm for the space program and that enterprise gag got me! We have a large facility here where the real enterprise was tested and it's pretty cool! We also love our astronaut ice cream!

[@reallycooldude7181]

Nowadays, my favorite part of watching Adam's channel is listening to what sentences he begins to say to indicate when he will announce the sponsor.

[@ms_cartographer]

The thing about smell being part of flavor for food and taste makes sense. When I had COVID-19 and I couldn't smell for weeks, I ate a ton of nongshim spicy ramen, pepper flakes, and spicy hot cheetos.

[@tachytack]

how do I join your church

[@desk-kun]

Man i felt that sponsor transition coming when he mentioned freeze dried coffee lmao. Great video on the subject.

[@mraj8372]

I watch these videos for stress relief. Honestly.

[@MrDick-kz8qc]

No need for affirmation. We all do. That Ragusea lad is comfort in human form.

[@jacktingey7886]

Adam and his family have faith of the heart. They can reach any star.

[@zieg0r]

The moment he had that spoon with the instant coffee powder in his hand, I knew what was coming. And he didn't disappoint.^^

[@ShovelChef]

Dat top tier segue game.

[@baylinkdashyt]

You're a better man than me; he was so smooth I didn't see it coming.

[@515aleon]

IKR? He's a transition master. Never found anyone who can compete.

[@clausroquefort9545]

you can hear it in the tone of a youtuber's voice when they are about to go "...but not as xyz as today's sponsor..."

[@515aleon]

@@clausroquefort9545 I heard it coming too, but in fact, didn't care. I laughed and thought this is so damn brilliant--and freeze dried coffee is similar invention so he has the science right too.

[@OverlordMaggie]

Regarding pencils in space, also sharpening wooden pencils! Even more flammable shreds flying around the interior! Mechanical pencil lead breaks easily, especially if using .5mm, so even ignoring flammable graphite flecks an engineering mechanical pencil would be the next-best - though the thicker leads need to be sharpened.

[@paul_hankin]

Heston Blumenthal got a bacon sandwich onto the ISS for British astronaut Tim Peake to eat by canning it. The was a good documentary a few years ago about HB's attempts to make the best meals he could that would pass NASA's strict rules so they could actually be sent up.

[@aila_online]

These "space" foods feel more appropriate for camping or backpacking.

[@ohajohaha]

Imagine having a Picnic On The Moon...

[@hxhdfjifzirstc894]

@@ohajohaha Fried chicken and Champagne!

[@jk0345]

@@ohajohaha Everybody knows the moon's made of cheese...

[@Charles-pg6wx]

As a former thru-hiker (PCT 2016) - yes. Most especially freeze-dried refried beans. Ramen as a close second.

[@nextalias]

3:30 once again I am delighted by the segue into the sponsor message .. your videos are one of the few where I typically do not skip past the sponsor message.

[@hightierplayers2454]

That ship is also why I got into science. I still follow professional design concepts that make it work to some degree with enthusiasm and hope that pure fandom ends up making a working Enterprise that at least looks similar at some point in the future even if only for a show and not for function.

[@hallaloth3112]

I think every Trekkie wants that >.> I'm always impressed by the fanbase that works on the scale models for every ship in the fleet.

[@davidmorin2818]

6:57 EarthBound

[@thebeybladethatwasusedtopa8846]

EarthBound

[@notaphycologyst6644]

EarthBound

[@k.2167]

EarthBound

[@vupham-bz3te]

EarthBound

[@thedogfamily3405]

EarthBound

[@davidcarbone3385]

oh man, I've eaten a few space Neapolitan slices lol they were creamy and tasty, a bit weird, but being told it was space food made it desirable.

[@lando8093]

I feel like this is the most well and satisfyingly structured video (the end is epic) and maybe overall my favorite video you ever did.

[@zackevans8986]

Your segues into your sponsors are always on point, sir.

[@liamsnell5549]

If you didn't know Enterprise was a test article and never actually went to space or orbit. It was only intended to test atmospheric flight. So maybe you should become an Atlantis family!

[@ericreese7792]

Bringing Enterprise up to space readiness was considered a few times, most notably after the loss of Challenger, but it was ultimately deemed cost prohibitive. Significant changes had been made to the orbiter design between Enterprise and Columbia, and it was ultimately easier to build Endeavour out of literal spare parts than modify the test article.

[@randoman750]

Great video, I enjoyed the creative licence you took, seemed like you had fun with this one!

[@user-te1fn8cj5r]

My mind has been so corrupt that when Adam was writing the words "Space Pen" I subconsciously thought he was going to continue writing.

[@bird5119]

3:22 this is BY FAR THE BEST segue I have ever seen in a video - you switched topics with a common link not once, but TWICE, and I did not see that sponsorship message coming

[@Randomness662]

The way you taunted NBC is so Adam Ragusea I love it

[@Brickfilmer125]

I can certainly feel the passion behind this video. Well done!

[@moist139]

that coffee ad transition was smooth, ngl.

[@darkspace4530]

Dang, just found your channel and I got to say i love the hopefull optimistic attitude you seem to raidate about the future, and the honor and respect you give the past!

[@bigbird3778]

This video feels even prettier than usual! Nice job!

[@raphaelnikolaus0486]

Thank you for the Enlightenment and Education, Adam. And the dedication note at the end even made me salute. Greetings from Cologne, Germany.

[@DylanBrubaker]

this videos is great, the timing is crazy since i was just at the air and space museum today and contemplated getting the freeze dried ice-cream sandwiches

[@seanholland6132]

I *KNEW* a Star Trek reference was coming as soon as you said "we are an Enterprise family." Respect.

[@almafuertegmailcom]

That's not exactly a Star Trek reference. Enterprise was a real Space Shuttle, although one that never went to space. It was a test article used to test aerodynamic characteristics of the Shuttle. Granted, that test article was named Enterprise after the USS Enterprise.

[@dbensen]

Progress and optimism! Now I hope you do a video on home freeze drying!

[@ashhitchner9184]

I feel like I've heard you reference Star Trek before but I had no idea the love was that deep! I think knowing that makes your positive perspective on human progress make so much sense, and as a fellow fan I gotta say, I sincerely appreciate that ☺️ I love that a cooking channel can be about so much more than just cooking 🤗 you keep doing you Adam, and I'll keep tuning in to see what happens next in the Ragusea-verse!

[@William.Kelly7]

I absolutely loved this video, thank you! And what you said at the end was perfect!

[@petrplasek]

What an awesome quality video, I enjoy your stuff soo much! Thanks Adam!

[@MightyMurloc]

In my opinion, this is the cutest video you've ever made. I know "cute" can be a dismissive term. But I absolutely don't mean it that way. I've learned a lot and you spoke with passion. Very nicely done.

[@juanito_666]

the man always gets a smart way to promote his sponsors

[@uncleslam9022]

That was *such* a smooth transition to sponsor.

[@erinhowett3630]

I like to play a game where i try to guess the ad is coming a few seconds before it does. I lost this time. Smooth af. Just like your coffee from trade.

[@kaizren7305]

This was a surprisingly heartwarming episode haha

[@Dylan-oh5ii]

Adam, as someone who went to IU you missed out on a great museum at the National Museum of the US Airforce. Only 3 hours away from Bloomington located in Dayton Ohio and is insanely impressive in size and collection, you owe yourself a visit next time you are in the area.

[@tyrannosaurusimperator]

Having been to both, it's miles better than the Smithsonian.

[@anjalim.3688]

Always love these niche bits of food journalism

[@dashiellgillingham4579]

Ducks cannot survive space travel because they do depend on gravity to swallow, meaning no future human colony world is currently expected to possess ducks.

[@sadham2668]

Truly a great tragedy 😢

[@socbask6230]

Hey Adam, love the videos. But we routinely send ice cream (ben and Jerry's has sponsored) up with most of our missions. There has even been pizza (Pizza Hut sponsored) delivered and a birthday cake for the crew. They have an espresso/coffee maker. They even have a microgravity oven now, and the first cookie was the Hilton Doubletree chocolate chip cookie.

[@screamingotter6169]

Those chocolate chip cookies are so good lol

[@blockhead4791]

You work with NASA? I'm curious what your role is.

[@nikoc8968]

that had to be among the smoothest transitions to a sponsor ive ever seen, lol! great video as usual, Adam.

[@conner4547]

Bit of a fun fact about the Space pen. Not only did both use a pen, they used the exact same pens, produced by the same company in the same factory.

[@marielundi]

My grand grandfather worked in Military Space Academy, and I remember those teeny-tiny breads in vacuum sealed pack that he showed me once. They were in use for some time in soviet space programmes. And now I work in planetarium and we had soups and cake in tubes (they don’t have tubes in space now). But cake was really nice.

[@strangelyrepulsive77]

4:54 brilliant reducing weight of water that you have to take with you anyway to rehydrate/compensate for less moisture in food. edit: guess if i watched entire video before commenting.

[@phoenixdzk]

I remember visiting the US for the first time in 2013. Made a beeline for the Smithsonian air & space museum. They had that massive Enterprise model in the gift shop! Picked up one of those gold emergency space blankets, the pens were ridiculously expensive & I wasn't in zero G so didn't touch those. Wonderful place

[@Croz89]

Fun fact, those blankets contain no gold whatosever, not even a microscopically thin layer. It's either PET or Kapton (yours would be PET, Kapton is expensive and it's what you see on actual satellites due to its high heat resistance). The plastic film is a translucent yellowy brown colour, and with an aluminium backing it looks very much like gold.

[@lizcademy4809]

The "space pen" is useful in other ways ... ever try to write with the paper o a vertical surface? Because the space pen ink cartridge is sealed and pressurized, it writes fine. However, the ink is blobby. I keep a space pen in my handbag, just in case.

[@phoenixdzk]

@@lizcademy4809 ooh that's cool, I never tried that before

[@phoenixdzk]

@@lizcademy4809 I usually power my pen cartridges by yelling 'work! Just work, damn you!'

[@erzsebetkovacs2527]

@@Croz89 Can you use that space blanket for other purposes here than Saul Goodman's big brother (lol)?

[@drewlawson1858]

Damnit Ragusea, you aren't supposed to make me cry at the the end. And thank you.

[@koltentvc]

that ad transition was so seamless i didnt even skip it out of appreciation

[@TanyaOfMars]

If you ever want to nerd out more about food in space Adam, I used to lead a project at Arizona State University that worked on how to make better space food, and how to make the experience of eating in space more enjoyable given things like the limitations on your sense of taste that you touched on in the video! And it has real world applications here on Earth for people with swallowing disorders, and degenerative conditions that can affect the sense of smell like Parkinson's.

[@patentthat]

Not Adam (duh) but thanks for your contributions to society!

[@StephenEggleston]

Pikes jambalaya on today's episode looked amazing

[@somechubbycunttm2845]

Gotta love that typical dad smile at the end

[@oscar_charlie]

You have my respect for dedicating this to the crews of Challenger and Columbia. I will add Apollo 1, and also Soyuz 1 and Soyuz 11 to that list.

[@raraavis7782]

Damn, I would like to try that stuff. I didn't even know, freeze dried ice cream existed!

[@josephwisniewski3673]

I buy it from time to time on Amazon. Down to my last bar.

[@loganfisher3138]

Hey Adam, be sure to check out the Udvar Hazy Air and Space museum next time you're in that area. It's also part of the Smithsonian like the one you've been to. I personally think it's the better of the two museums.

[@endymallorn]

I saw the TNG reference on your coffee mug. Automatically makes me like your content more.

[@kameronb9934]

I think this was your slickest and most on topic sponsor segue😂 loved it

[@spudd86]

The Soviets didn't just switch to pens, they switched to Fischer's space pen the moment that Fischer could legally export it to them.

[@mrhendrixin4259]

You look like if someone tried to draw markiplier from memory and confused him with John wick halfway through

[@brycevo]

This is a really honest and well made video

[@zachpw]

Specialty instant coffee does exist. Black & White Roasters in Raleigh NC makes some in house. They basically make a bunch of espresso (blended with some other kind of brewing by a weird industrial proprietary brewer), freeze it on sheet trays, freeze dry it, and put the powder into packets.

[@Anthromod]

Heston Blumnethal did a thing about astronaut food. Apparently the rule about bread was because an early astronaut took up a sandwich with a very flaky/crusty type of bread. They then rather over reacted when making the rule, and most bread is fine. It's probably not very efficient volume wise though.

[@ericreese7792]

Not just "an early astronaut", but John Young, NASA's longest-serving astronaut. He joined up with Astronaut Group 2 in 1962, flew on two Gemini missions (the first, Gemini 3 was the corned beef flight), two Apollo flights, and two shuttle flights and remained on the active roster until 2004, but was said to continue to attend the weekly astronaut corps meetings for many years thereafter, before his death in 2018. So the smuggled sandwich didn't hurt his career.

[@Astrocat-od5cy]

It was a reuben sandwich in case you're wondering. The actual culprit was Gus Grissom and after taking just one bite crumbs began to fly around the cabin and both Grissom and Young decided it was a bad idea and put it away for the rest of the flight.

[@moneysins]

Real space food still looks way better than my desperate summer diet…

[@OrigamiMarie]

The thing about space food, is that by far the biggest part of the cost is getting it to them. If they're going to pay $10k to get the food up there, it doesn't really matter what you send. You could send $6 of Top Ramen or $70 of freeze dried prawns, and it all looks pretty much like the $10k either way.

[@oscartafjord9863]

Smoothest transition into in-video ad ever!

[@could_possiblybe_thane07echo]

Ive never had space icecream but that _crunch_ makes it look so good

[@lordcroussette]

7:14 Dude, Atlantis is the best Space Shuttle, change my mind.

[@waylonu3495]

0:31 nah bro thats wolf brand 💀

[@FindlayOsborn]

Great video Adam. NASA has always been a source of inspiration to me and just recently I got to visit “the Dish” in Parkes Australia, which assisted in receiving the pictures of the Apollo 11 EVA and broadcasting them to the world. It was really special to see.

[@jimihendricks5602]

I think @SteveShives would appreciate that ending. Loved the outro with the "how do you do that?", thanks for sharing it Adam.

[@asperrati7556]

Agam radusea

[@hasky3183]

I have radusea

[@zzurie_0]

agm raduse

[@HeisenbergFam]

7:43 Astronauts not being able to eat ice cream in space is truly the biggest tragedy of the century

[@scruffopone3989]

Oh my god I only just now noticed the Uxbridge Shimoda mug, absolutely in love with it.

[@KemanSituation]

Impecable timing Adam!

[@praisetogaming8828]

God I just love the way Adam transitions into ads, always find it so funny 😂

[@greentjmtl]

This channel definitely has one of the best ad transitions on youtube.

[@danielsantiagourtado3430]

That is SO fascinating 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉 love Spacey food

[@chriscab47]

You haven't even watched the video yet

[@danielsantiagourtado3430]

@@chriscab47 ive already watch videos on the topic.

[@jbthekeeper2509]

That was the smoothest ad transition I have ever seen!

[@joshanderson4658]

Seeing the thumbnail brought me back to when I did a tour at the ames center as a kid and they had us try their freeze dried ice cream sandwiches. Neat stuff!

[@vehicleboi5598]

4:48 time link for coffe haters