Microgravity Dinners
from Futuropolis by Popular Science Hosted by Popular Science/Panoply
One day, we may well be zipping around in commercial spaceships or living in colonies on Mars. But it will be hard to enjoy life in microgravity if the food is as freeze-dried and, well, unpalatable as it is today. In addition to sampling astronaut ice cream on the show, we speak with a space botanist, an astronaut, and the guy that could make 3-D printed space food a reality. Listen to the episode to find out how, and why, we'll make future food tasty. Don't miss the space-food-related gems we've pulled from the Popular Science archives, either. In 1965, for example, famed aerospace engineer Wernher von Braun predicted that space voyagers would dine on filet mignon. So fancy! But years later, in 1998, author Mark Uehling sampled a real astronaut meal--and gave it a less than stellar review.
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