The Best Item In An Astronaut's Care Package? Definitely The Ice Cream
Unlike other cargo vehicles, the SpaceX spacecraft can return to Earth without burning up. So it's equipped with freezers for transporting medical samples — and the occasional frozen treat.
by Laurel Wamsley
Aug 16, 2017
2 minutes
A SpaceX craft docked at the International Space Station on Wednesday carrying more than 6,400 pounds of lab equipment and supplies for crew members living there.
But perhaps the most eagerly awaited cargo on the resupply mission may also be its most perishable: ice cream.
We all remember astronaut ice cream, those little dehydrated bricks of neopolitan.
The reason astronauts generally don't have much access to the real
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