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Perhaps the most popular example of space food that possibly never was, astronaut ice cream is now 50 years old. The crunchy, room temperature treat, which melts as the freeze-dried ice cream ...
Even if astronaut ice cream were on Apollo 7, it would probably have been rehydratable food similar to most of the other food options on the flight, not the freeze-dried block we recognize today.
According to The Franklin Institute, "Astronaut Ice Cream" remains one of the most popular souvenirs around the world, selling more than 30,000 packages every year in its Sci Store.
Astronaut ice cream came onto the scene in 1968. The Apollo missions were underway, though hadn’t yet landed a man on the moon. The Whirlpool Corporation developed freeze-dried ice cream for ...
Astronaut ice cream can be found in science museums, novelty shops and online. But according to the National Air and Space Museum, it wasn't necessarily used on any space missions.
This is one reason why the famous crumbly, chalky, freeze-dried astronaut ice cream that children devour on Earth is not actually eaten in space. Although astronaut ice cream was originally developed ...
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Perhaps the most popular example of space food that possibly never was, astronaut ice cream is now 50 years old. The crunchy, room-temperature treat was first sold to the public in 1974.
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