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Soyuz spacecraft food - Saute de Veau Marengo Lyophilise - Euro Space Center (Transinne/BE)

Soyuz spacecraft food - Saute de Veau Marengo Lyophilise, just add 10cl of hot water, rehydrate and reheat in only a minute and it's ready to squeeze it into the mouth. Skylab food significantly improved on its predecessors by prioritizing edibility over scientific needs. Food was also important, early Apollo crews complained about its quality and a NASA volunteer found it intolerable to live on the Apollo food for four days on Earth. Its taste and composition were unpleasant, in the form of cubes and squeeze tubes...

 

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Transinne - Euro Space Center

 

Euro Space Center - a science museum and educational tourist attraction located in Transinne, Belgium. It is devoted to space science and astronautics. The centre includes simulators of space flight and micro-gravity, various space craft models and space exploration objects. It is also the home of the only full-scale mock-up of a U.S. Space Shuttle existing in Europe, named Amicitia.

 

Info: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euro_Space_Center.

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Richard Poppelaars

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Uploaded on September 13, 2013
Taken on May 10, 2013