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ASTRONAUTS experience weightlessness, and most of them also lose weight in space. Why? Because they are often nauseous, always busy, and the food on board their capsules, shuttles and space stations doesn’t look, smell or taste like it does on Earth. As a result, NASA has devoted years to creating foods that can travel safely into space and meet astronauts’ nutritional needs while not making a mess of their spacecraft.

How about a nice sandwich and a glass of milk? As Charles Bourland, a retired NASA food scientist, and co-author Gregory Vogt explain in The Astronaut’s Cookbook, bread means…

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