Until the day we can reliably grow many types of food in space ... pop tops. Skylab also had a small refrigerator/freezer and for the first time, astronauts ate real ice cream. By the way, freeze- ...

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Freeze-dried ice cream did make an appearance on the Apollo 7 mission, in 1968, but was scratched from the space program soon after. The astronauts, it seems, didn’t like the stuff. The good ...

Hi-Chews have become an iconic candy in the US (despite the brand’s Japanese roots) but Hi-Crunch, a freeze-dried version of ...

The ice cream manages to look like outer space. It's dark grey and the freeze-dried ice cream hunks and white Soylent pudding look like craters and stars in the dark sky. Don't let the Soylent ...