Wasabi Spill in Space.

By Alex in Food & Drink on Mar 4, 2007 at 12:15 pm

Add this to the dangers of microgravity in space: wasabi spill!

The spicy greenish condiment was squirted out of a tube while astronaut Sunita Williams was trying to make a pretend sushi meal with bag-packaged salmon. The three space station crewmembers are given a certain number of bonus packs of their favorite foods to help endure their months in space where most meals are the equivalent of military MREs.

Since everything is weightless, spilled food is no ordinary clean-up challenge.

"We finally got the wasabi smell out after it was flying around everywhere," Williams told her mother this week in a conversation arranged by Boston radio station WBZ. "We cleaned it up off the walls a little bit."

Link


Email This Post
Tweet This Post 
Share This Post on Facebook


Neat stuff from the NeatoShop:


  1. Daniel Kim
    Mar 5th, 2007 at 9:22 am

    Wasabi? That’s nothing compared with South Korea’s plan to put kimchi on the space station. Between its own natural pressurization from fermenting cabbage (an explosion risk in the low atmospheric pressure within the station), the terrible-yet-strangely-appealing smell of the food itself, and the extended flatulence that follows eating it, kimchi aboard the station should be considered an act of terrorism!


Keep track of the comments with Comment RSS

Don't Miss: New Stuff | Bestsellers | The Cute Store
                   Funny T-Shirts

Need a gift? Get unforgettable gifts for:
Geeks | Pranksters | Kids | Hipsters | Shutterbugs

Lijit Search

Old school? Bookmark us! RSS Feed Twitter Facebook Page