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What are NASA’s Artemis II astronauts eating? 58 tortillas, 43 cups of coffee and a lot of hot sauce
Dining in space isn’t exactly a Michelin Star experience, but it is exciting. The Artemis II mission is no exception: the astronauts’ menu includes foods such as macaroni and cheese, beef brisket, broccoli au gratin—and 58 tortillas.

In all, the four crew members—Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Jeremy Hansen and Christina Koch—have a selection of 189 different menu items to choose from on their journey around the moon. Tortillas are among the most popular astronaut foods—in part because it’s simply easy to fill them, fold them up and eat them without bits floating off in the zero-g environment inside a spacecraft.

On Friday the crew’s breakfast menu included vegetable quiche, scrambled eggs, couscous with nuts, peaches and oatmeal. “There’s even a muffin being enjoyed today,” said NASA public affairs officer Leah Cheshier Mustachio in the agency’s livestream coverage of the mission. Coffee is also in high demand: NASA has allotted 43 cups of coffee for the crew—a little more than 10 cups per astronaut across the 10-day mission.

Source: Scientific American
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Scientific American What are NASA’s Artemis II astronauts eating? 58 tortillas, 43 cups of coffee and a lot of hot sauce The menu for NASA’s moon mission has 189 unique items on it and mirrors that of the International Space Station
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