Lufthansa Adds Astronaut Food to its Airline Passenger Menu

SPACE.com ^ | July 5, 2018 09:38am ET | Robert Z. Pearlman

[Moonman62]

The meals look like cat food.

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Yep. A can by any other name is still a can. I think the treats we send our astronauts are much better.

[Pelham]

I demand to know why Pan Am does not have a rotating wheel space station in operation (and Pan Am having gone out of business is no excuse). I was sure, in 1969, that one would certainly exist by 2001, and instead all we get is that boring ISS.

No Pan Am space station. No monolith. No Jupiter expedition. We have been cheated.

[Moonman62]

I see 2001 referenced at least once a week on FR.

[Pontiac]

The space food, now served at 35,000 feet in addition to 250 miles above the planet, is available to business class passengers on long-haul flights originating in Germany.

I bet it taste better than the food I had on United last month.

Unfrosted Pop Tarts would have been better.

[Jack Hammer]

Tang and liquefied yams?

No thanks.

I’ll have the steak, with French fries, and key lime pie afterward, thank you. With a half bottle of Burgundy, if available.

[Buckeye McFrog]

At the NASA museum in Huntsville they have a fascinating display that details the bios of all of America’s female astronauts.

I was struck by how impressive the educations of these women were. Advanced degrees in physics and engineering from Cal, MIT, Purdue, etc.

Then you think about the one who threw on an adult diaper and drove from Texas to Florida to confront her married lover in an airport, and wonder “How does THAT happen?”