Hasta La Gadget!

Having a nibble of astronaut ice cream is a rite of passage for field-tripping American youths, but the reality of subsisting solely on specialty dehydrated vittles with long shelf lives doesn’t have the same kind of novelty in space. NASA has already been developing tactics to fight “menu fatigue," and later this year will mark the first time that fresh food will actually be grown way out in orbit.

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