The primary reason is to reduce the payload weight the rocket must lift, every pound lifted into orbit costs about $10,000 to get it there. Water needed to rehydrate it before it is eaten is not taken into orbit, it is available free as the waste product of the fuel cells that generate electricity for the spacecraft. Also some water on modern spacecraft is recycled from urine by using reverse osmosis to purify it.
Space on the ship, but they do not actually eat it dry, they add water to they stuff.
The food they take also has just what they need in it, nutritionally and it is physically easy to control, i.e. it wont float away.
Astronauts have to eat powdered food because other food won't work very good in 0 gravity
i think because thy cant eat real food in space...it will float away
Astronauts eat regular food, it is just that the food floats around and people call it, space food
Space food has progressed from bland, tasteless food that the astronauts squeezed from tubes to dehydrated meals. .
Potato Chips...because they are crunchy.
No, astronauts do not take off their helmets to eat. Astronauts do not normally wear their helmets except when exposed to the vacuum of space. They are not normally exposed to space when in a spacecraft (Apollo, Skylab, Shuttle, Space Station, etc.). They eat while in the spacecraft, so there is no need to remove their helmets.
NO. Space food is the same sort of food you and I eat, except that it's vacuum-packed and bottled, sometimes put into a paste to make it easy for the astronauts to eat.
they dry it out
astronauts eat 21 servings of food in a week
Well, they dont really eat anything but some dry foods Hope this helped
Mostly astronauts will have freezed - dried foods. Astronauts will squeeze water into food packages and then eat the food after it absorbs water.
Astronauts eat regular food, it is just that the food floats around and people call it, space food
Astronauts eat regular food, it is just that the food floats around and people call it, space food
Astronauts eat dried food, or, really really well packed food. They pack food really really good by sucking out all of the air inside the package. When they eat the dry food, they add water through a little tube.
The food of the astronauts is all packed dated and named , it special food light , as it can float in space.
Food that we eat on earth they eat air packed food.
they take liquid food to eat
some intersting facts are that asternouts ~ they sleep while standing~ ~they eat dry space food~ ~they can float in their spaceships~
they eat grinded food in pouches and eat your moms pudding