Chocolate chip cookies become first food to be baked in space

The Evening Standard UK ^ | 24 January 2020 | Ellena Cruse

[blueplum]

In a small step for man but a giant leap for baked goods, chocolate chip cookies have become the first food to be baked in space.

The round biscuits were prepared in a special oven on board the International Space Station (ISS), led by commander Luca Parmitano and astronaut Christina Koch.

The process was a real mission and it took several long days for the crew to experiment with different methods....

[blueplum]

another reason to be an astronaut - milk and cookies!!!

[FatherofFive]

So the send the woman to space to bake cookies.

[dp0622]

led by commander Luca Parmitano...

And a mobster!!

Posting stereotypes about my descendants. Terrible. :)

[laker_dad]

Did they use an Easy Bake Oven?

[nwrep]

[Magnum44]

[4yearlurker]

Sweet!

[Leep]

Dang..i could have been a astronaut.

[C210N]

Baked in space, yes... but NOT eaten in space!

I viewed an in-depth youtube on the technology, and a big thing pointed out was, for good reason, the maiden voyage features the baking, but the result must be returned for analysis. There is no eating the baked cookie(s). However, to mitigate the bad publicity aspect of that, the oven goes up with earth-baked cookies for the astronauts to eat instead (for now).

The youtube was quite interesting about the various aspects of the oven... that it cannot have any fan, that it cannot work by convection, etc.

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These were also packaged as "food sticks," but it was the "space" that really sold the product.

[twister881]

Next: Female astronauts to iron in zero “g” the shirts of male astronauts.
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[Carriage Hill]

They’ve got an “Easy Bake Oven” onboard?

[beef]

I remember those thing! I’m showing my age, I guess.

[x]

What you would expect would happen after they made women astronauts?

Some may remember the old bumper sticker:

It'll be a great day when the schools have all the money they need and the air force has to hold a bake sale to buy a bomber.

Or the rejoinder:

It will be a great day when the Pentagon has enough money to bomb public schools having bake sales.

NASA employees actually did have a bake sale a little while back to protest budget cuts.

[Cowboy Bob]

And make sandwiches...

[Cowboy Bob]

In Russian, her name is pronounced “Kook” LOL!

[logi_cal869]

SEVENTY-FIVE minutes????

More like chocolate chip “crackers/crisps”.

[TheNext]

I want my tax money back.

I have far better uses for money than space cookies.

Where is the Governmwnt revenue refund department?

[Vaduz]

Not so sure about chocolate chips in space,here Larry you taste this.

[blueplum]

I volunteer to be on the space cookie tasting team!