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Italian Delicacies Spice Up Space Mission Menu
Baikonur, Kazakhstan (AFP) Apr 14, 2005 Forget images of germ-free processed space rations, the crew of the international space station ISS will now be able to feast on a range of Italian delicacies, Italian astronaut Roberto Vittori revealed here last Thursday as he prepared to blast off. "One of the particularities of this mission is that we'll be taking Italian food with us, traditional products from the Latium region, to give the international space station an Italian flavour," Vittori said at a press conference ahead of last Friday's take off. Cheese, nuts, biscuits, sweets and honey will liven up the menu astronauts apparently often moan about on their long missions in space. They will also be tested for loss of flavour or nutritional value in weightless conditions. Vittori, Russia's Sergei Krikalev and American John Phillips blasted off Friday at 6:46 am (0046 GMT) on the Soyouz TMA-6, and will link up with the ISS station on Sunday. Food hygiene standards developed for space missions have since been widely implemented in industrial food production. All rights reserved. � 2005 Agence France-Presse. Sections of the information displayed on this page (dispatches, photographs, logos) are protected by intellectual property rights owned by Agence France-Presse. As a consequence, you may not copy, reproduce, modify, transmit, publish, display or in any way commercially exploit any of the content of this section without the prior written consent of Agence France-Presse. Community Email This Article Comment On This Article Related Links SpaceDaily Search SpaceDaily Subscribe To SpaceDaily Express Space Station News at Space-Travel.Com
NASA Had No Choice But To Buy Soyuz Flights
Washington DC (SPX) Jan 09, 2006NASA's announcement last week that it will pay Roskosmos $43.6 million for a round-trip ride to the International Space Station this spring, and an equivalent figure for an as-yet-undetermined number of future flights to the station until 2012, represents the agency's acknowledgment that it had no alternative. |
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