Astronauts cosmonauts and a very limited number of people have experienced eating space food
due to the unique processing and packaging required for space travel. This book allows anyone
with a normal kitchen to prepare space food. Since some of the processing such as freeze
dehydration and packaging cannot be accomplished in the normal kitchen many of the recipes
will not produce the food that would be launched in space but will prepare food similar to
what the astronauts would eat after they had added the water to the food in space. Many of the
space foods are prepared to the point of ready to eat and then frozen and freeze dried. Food
preparation in this book stops at the point of ready to eat before the freezing and dehydrating
takes place. Recipes in this book are extracted from the NASA food specifications and modified
for preparation in a normal kitchen. The book will contain the following chapters: Introduction
Appetizers Beverages Bread and Tortillas Cookies Sandwiches Desserts Main Dishes Soups
and Salads Vegetables and Future Space Foods. Interesting tidbits of space food history will
be spread throughout the book. Examples like did NASA invent Tang? who was the first person
to eat in space? the Gemini sandwich fiasco why there is no alcohol in U.S. space food
systems astronauts favorite food etc.
