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Chapter 298 New Generation Space Food

The four astronauts in the space station were still waiting for the barrage feedback, but who would have thought that the barrage was rarely empty after the interview.

Even the foreign language barrage is the same, I don't know if they understand what they are saying.

For a while, the four astronauts didn't know what was going on. It was the "travelers" who continued to eat noodles and then commented. Li Yuling signaled Du Kangsheng to send a text message and ask the ground command center.

After confirming that it is not the problem of network stalling and direct network disconnection, we continued to demonstrate.

Soon the noodles will be eaten, but a bowl of noodles will definitely not be full, because space food is generally small, and a meal has to eat several things to ensure the "fullness" and nutritional balance within a period of time.

So the "passenger" took out scrambled eggs with shrimps, stir-fried vegetables, grain biscuits, radish with sauce, seaweed egg drop soup, and snacks like crab yellow broad beans and crunchy chocolate from the food bag, and took it from the fruit bag. An apple that came out.

These things are actually similar to what astronauts eat in recent years, but they basically don’t use the compression, dehydration, and freeze-drying methods commonly used in space food. They all seem to be sold in supermarkets on the ground. Similar.

At most, the materials are exquisite, after all, they are sent to the space station.

After showing a pack, the other three also took a pack and started eating, after all, they were also hungry.

And these three packs of food have different types, but they all look more reductive, fluffy, and more appetizing.

At this time the barrage also came back.

"Niu Pian, I don't know what to say except this word, Navigator Niu Pian!"

"I have to say that there is an orbital shuttle that can do whatever you want, and you don't need to consider the size of the space when you send supplies, and the restaurant of the commercial space station is luxurious, and there are all kinds of high-tech gadgets."

"It feels that the restaurant is not very luxurious. It's just that we are accustomed to seeing the'messy' design of scientific research space stations. At first glance, this commercial design is not used to it. In fact, the restaurant at Starry Sky Inn is just a modern and simple decoration style. It looks neat and bright."

"In fact, I feel that these new-style space meals are quite good, especially the bowl of fried noodles. The fried noodles in my hand are not fragrant anymore. I can imagine that when an astronaut who worked in space for a long time got this bowl of fried sauce They should be very moved when it comes to noodles instead of the'bread' in a plastic bag."

"There is one thing to say, indeed, the working environment of astronauts is too difficult. The weightless environment affects their sense of taste, digestion and absorption, and tortures their mind and body. They also have to work and live in a small space every day, delicious and diverse. Foods help them adjust their mood, but the bagged foods to be eaten every day, cakes compressed into cakes, biscuits that never slag, and water bags with buckles are always reminding them of their environment , This is a very contradictory thing."

"You're right, if they can also eat this kind of bowl of noodles, fluffy like freshly baked cakes, drink tea from a cup, even with a straw with a snap, this is similar to the state of tableware and food on earth. It should be very important for their physical and mental health."

"I suggest that the other two space stations also use this kind of tableware, and even purchase the service directly from Navigator."

"I suggest that the three space stations are directly assembled together. Humans should be united. It would be too wasteful to operate the three space stations separately."

"Hello everyone, I am Wang Ping, the stationmaster of the Tiangong Space Station. We have cooperated with Navigator many times. We are using this kind of packaging now. Next time I will take a video and share it with you~"

"Mom, there is certification, it is a real person, the front row pays tribute, we wait to watch the video, hehe!"

"Really? Let me see, lying...I was shocked, it's really real, Master Wang Ping, Master Wang Ping, you are my goddess!!"

That sentence is indeed what Wang Ping said, and now the space station uses a high-speed network as standard, and watching a live broadcast is of course trivial.

And still watch the live broadcast of another space station, which is naturally very important for other space stations.

Not only people from the Tiangong Space Station are watching the live broadcast, but also from the International Space Station.

It's just that unlike the astronauts on the Tiangong Space Station who have used the same tableware and ate the same food, the astronauts on the International Space Station are sour.

Can't say yet.

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All the objects in space have lost their weight and become able to fly everywhere, like tiny dust in the air.

In this way, astronauts can no longer eat and chew as easily as on Earth, or they will get stuck in the esophagus because the food cannot be swallowed, which is life-threatening.

This is what scientists knew before astronauts entered space.

Therefore, while developing spacecraft, scientists are also studying the manufacture of space food.

After many times of space practice, scientists have discovered that space food requires rich nutrition, hygiene, and convenient eating.

And these "practices" all started from "toothpaste".

The first generation of space food is of course not real toothpaste. Although toothpaste is something that you can eat, it’s okay to eat something when people brush their teeth, but that stuff is really not suitable for eating.

The "toothpaste" mentioned here is just because the state of the food is too similar to toothpaste.

The original space food was only to solve the problem of food and clothing for astronauts because of the limited understanding of space and limited technology.

At that time, food was made into pastes, such as beef syrup, apple syrup, vegetable mash, and meat and vegetable mash. They were pressed into aluminum toothpaste shells. When they were eaten, they were squeezed like toothpaste. Press into your mouth.

They have the original characteristics of space food, that is, they are small, easy to carry and transport, and easy to eat.

They don't even need to chew, the paste made by the machine is much finer than they can chew themselves.

With the passage of time and technological advancement, toothpaste products have been upgraded, and they have been made into bite-by-bite compressed foods.

This is the second generation of space food.

The ultimate obstacle to eating in space is that there is no gravity, so food cannot have debris. Once the debris is eaten, it will float in the air.

If an astronaut accidentally sucks debris into the lungs, it is not a joke, just because of the flow and turbulence of space returning to the ground, death is not far away.

Therefore, it is very necessary to make small pieces of food one by one to ensure that the astronauts can swallow one bite, and to ensure that no debris will be generated due to tooth bite.

At this time, there is a saying that when the teeth chew something, it will produce a sense of happiness, at least it is much better than the "toothpaste" that is squeezed into the mouth and swallowed with the tongue twice.

In the third generation of space food, dehydration and rehydration technology is used.

They are mainly freeze-dried foods, such as rice, noodles and other staple foods and various dishes, fruits and vegetables, which can be eaten with water.

Since there is no gravity in space, in order to prevent water from floating away, the water should be directly added to the food packaging bag for squeezing. After the water and food are fully absorbed, it will become a slimy mass, and then you can eat it.

But this paste just prevents the food from floating into one piece, which is different from the initial paste.

This kind of food is closer to ordinary meals on the ground, with the graininess of food in the paste, like normal food with more sauce, which can satisfy the taste and taste of astronauts.

By the fourth generation of space food, the mainstream of space food before the Navigator blended with space food, they are already much better.

Because the technology is sufficiently advanced, the space station can use refrigerators and heating devices, so thermally stable foods and frozen refrigerated foods have appeared.

The former are soft-packaged and hard-packaged canned foods that have been heat-sterilized and self-care. They can be stored for a long time and can be eaten directly.

The latter is frozen on the ground and taken into space, and is edible after thawing.

Therefore, in addition to staple food, astronauts can also eat foods such as fresh vegetables, fruits, and fresh soup after heating.

Because astronauts of various countries have their own eating habits, there are many types of fourth-generation space food.

Of course, now that the Navigator has incorporated the space video field, they have already been counted as the previous generation of products.

In other words, these raw material-level foods such as fruits and vegetables are not a generational difference. After all, they are all delivered in the same way.

There is no shrinking machine in this world. Apple cannot compress it. If it is compressed forcibly, it will not be fresh food, and it will not be expected by astronauts.

These new space foods are considered a new generation, not because the orbital shuttle can do whatever they want, at least not all due to the orbital shuttle, the food does use new technology.