When it comes to grabbing a bite to eat, the international space station is living up to its first name.
It's a veritable food court of international cuisine, observed new resident Nicole Stott, an American astronaut who will stay aboard the space station until November.
Stott said she found that for different meals she could sample foods from various parts of the world including the US, Canada, Japan, Europe and Russia.
"I think you can find something for everyone," Stott said at a news conference held for the 13 members of the joint crews of the space shuttle Discovery and space station.
'I think you can find something for everyone' In past years, astronauts have complained about the quality of the food. Astronaut Norm Thagard, the first American to fly on the Russian space station Mir, bemoaned jellied perch and borscht in his diet and lost a considerable amount of weight.
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Now the international aspect of the space station is a selling point.
So far astronauts have made two spacewalks to do maintenance on the space station with one more spacewalk to go. Astronaut Tim Kopra of the US has been on board the space station since July and will come home with Discovery on Tuesday. - Sapa-AP
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This article was originally published on page 6 of Tribune on September 06, 2009
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