The Challenges of Preparing Food in Space

During the Apollo program, when missions got long enough to require food for astronauts, they had to rely on nourishment like roast beef squeezed from a tube directly intones mouth. Now that astronauts  spend weeks or even months aboard the International Space Station, that fare won't fly. NASA Astronaut Megan McArthur explains how space food is engineered to be as much like normal food as possible, but it still looks like C-rations to us. At about six minutes in, we get to see the chaos of McArthur making a tortilla full of beef and chasing the stray bits around. (via Laughing Squid)