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When Gagarin flew into space, it is also a bit fed. He was given the homogenised products in tubes. Gagarin was only nine products.

Now Cosmos send the products freeze-dried. Sublimation - dehydration of the product is by first freezing down to minus 50 degrees, and then in a vacuum drying: 32 hours it is heated up to + 50-70 degrees. During sublimation the ice turns to water and evaporates immediately, and valuable substances usually go with moisture, remain in place.

One of the most difficult to prepare freeze-dried products - it's tea. And one of the most delicious, according to astronauts - is a freeze-dried cheese with cranberries and nuts. It tastes like fresh.

Space products - the safest and most natural. In them there is no chemical or synthetic additives: unknown how they will behave in space, which, including the present solar radiation and magnetic waves.

The menu of American astronauts did not exist before the first dishes. 70% food astronauts consisted of finished products and only 30% of food was done on purpose.

The hardest thing in the cosmos with water. On the spacecraft performed a complete regeneration of the water: even wastes are cleaned and re-transformed into vodichku.

Breads are packed in packaging, which is enough for exactly one bite. The fact that flying chips can be inhaled. Bread Baking Industry Institute supplies, vacuum packed. Astronauts it is heated.

Heated food comes in a specially adapted for this purpose on the desktop. And it is heated cans - in a closed form. A sublimated food just pour hot water.

Aliens are trying to take place in the Cosmos products to which they are accustomed. But first they are checked. When the flying Frenchman, one cheese is not allowed - too it was biologically active.

Raise the space of 1 kg weight is from 5 to 10 thousand dollars. A person per day requires 1, 5-1, 7 kg of food. So the food is astronaut from 10 000 rubles a day.

In the state of weightlessness, in the twilight of a spacecraft, when a porthole - a starry darkness and the vague outlines of distant planets, especially want to eat for dinner something home - with a characteristic smell, a sweet imperfect form. In extreme conditions of space voyage, the simplest snacks seem royal meats.

Italians are heavier than other people have to worry about breaking the culinary traditions, in fact they are very attached to their national cuisine. Therefore, Coldiretti (National Confederation of Agricultural Producers) has decided to take care of those compatriots who, because of circumstances separated from your favorite childhood dishes: Confederation of experts developed a menu for astronauts. "In the space included a diet of traditional foods from Lazio has a pronounced taste and earn the trust of Italians - said in a press release Coldiretti. - They have been selected from 4008 titles included in the overall national registry and regional lists, which are carefully drawn up within 25 years ».

Scientists are obsessed with it, to diversify the table poor astronauts. We already wrote about the vine, which went into space along with the latest mission of "Aeneid", which took place in April (for details, see. Article "Intergalactic wine" in №41 U & I). But the wine needs the right snack. So, drum roll! In the first experimental space menu includes croutons of Viterbo, eucalyptus honey from Pontine Valley, ricotta cheese from Lazio, olives from Gaeta, mozzarella, goat's son pecorino from Sabina torronchino (roasted almonds in sugar and honey) of Alvito, nuts hazelnuts from the mountains Cimini and biscotti (cookies) from Sant Anselmo.

Global culinary space experiment, in which all of these goodies have gone into interstellar heights, called Food Tray in Space («a tray of food in space" - abbreviated to FTS). It was invented in Lazio, and more precisely in Rome, on the sidelines of the National Agency for Development and Innovation of Agriculture (Ausial). Place of birth is quite natural - the darling of the nation's astronaut Roberto Vittori, has twice visited the orbit, comes precisely from the city of Viterbo, in the Lazio.

"Initially we chose to Space Marines 15 products from different towns in the region - says Antonio De Benedetti, who is organizing the project. - Then the dishes were sent to the Russian laboratory for microbiological analyzes. After that, their number was reduced to six: three meals flour, nuts, cheese and honey. " Past harsh selection of dishes laid out on a tray called - was placed in a transparent airtight silver bag with compartments for each product. "Vittori personally checked whether our" tray "to withstand cosmic fluctuations in pressure and temperature sufficient for each product and whether it is consistency," - said De Benedetti.

Of course, Signor Vittori to fly in space is not the same: private trips are still too expensive. On the way to orbit and back again to agree on what to eat for dinner, he had with the American and Russian (there - Sergei Krikalev and John Phillips, back - with Salizhan Sharipov and Leroy Chiao). Thanks to the cooperation agreement between the administration of the Lazio region and the Russian Space Agency, the Italians still managed to defend their national dishes as the basis of the experimental diet of astronauts.

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