John Glenn ate pureed beef and veggies from a tube, but today's astronauts get fresh fruit and meals designed by celebrity chefs.

Lettuce grown in space contains 29-31% less calcium and 25% less magnesium than Earth crops, creating serious health risks ...

Discover how scientists engineer foods for space missions, then design your own solutions for extreme environments on Earth.

Missions to the moon and Mars pose nutritional challenges for astronauts. Now, a new paper on space-grown food poses ...

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Astronaut on moon next to American flag and lunar rover - Rawpixel.com/Shutterstock On March 23, 1965, NASA launched astronauts Virgil "Gus" Grissom and John Young ...

Discover space-age technology for growing fresh food and get hands-on as you investigate how hydroponics systems can combat ...

In this quiz, you'll explore the weird, wonderful, and sometimes surprising world of space cuisine. Can you tell which foods have actually made it to orbit? When astronauts head into orbit, they don't ...

Feb. 27, 2012 — -- The shrimp cocktail on the space shuttle must really have been something. On a two-week flight in 2006, astronaut Mark Polansky asked to have it on his menu every day. For ...

Space may be the best thing since sliced bread, but it has shortcomings. For example, you might think it's crumby that you ...