Astronaut ice cream (whose actual journey into space is widely questioned) is that freeze-dried brick you bought on your eighth grade field trip to the space museum. It tasted like cardboard ...

What happens when you combine astronaut ice cream with sausage? We tried it, and the results are mind-blowing! Is it delicious or a cosmic disaster? Join us on this wild food adventure to find out!

By the way, freeze-dried ice cream isn’t real astronaut food. Although the stuff was developed for NASA and even appears in the Apollo 7 press kit (PDF, page 83), it has never flown into space ...

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But astronaut ice cream came with the ultimate value-added, better than hot fudge or peanuts: I was eating what astronauts ate! As it turns out, I wasn’t. Or, rather, I was eating what only very ...