"Oyster mushrooms are the perfect space crop, helping astronauts meet their nutritional needs on long-duration space missions ...

A miso test on the International Space Station shows fermenting food is not only possible in space, it adds nuttier notes to the Japanese condiment.

When we think of burgers and fries, we usually think of big, juicy patties with soft buns, plenty of fresh ingredients and ...

NASA astronauts Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore returned to Earth on March 18, 2025, after a nine-month mission aboard the International Space Station (ISS). Their stay was extended due to technical ...

NASA astronauts return after a nine-month stay on the International Space Station, originally planned for nine days. The crew ...

By the way, freeze-dried ice cream isn’t real astronaut food. Although the stuff was developed for NASA and even appears in the Apollo 7 press kit (PDF, page 83), it has never flown into space ...

When you think of space food, you might think of a very basic dehydrated or tube based meal that you have to quickly scoff before it floats away. In reality, the way astronauts eat and the variety ...

Stranded in space for 9 months, Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore relied on a unique NASA diet. From pizza to freeze-dried meals, here’s what they ate in orbit.