John Glenn’s tube of beef and vegetable goo from Friendship ... It has detailed information about all the foods the astronauts ate during the Apollo program, including full menus from each ...

But astronaut ice cream came with the ultimate ... post-Soviet partners had stayed closer to the bare-bones “tubes and cubes” food philosophy of space travel’s earliest days.

While today's astronauts still eat packaged meals, their food has a lot more variety and flavor than what Armstrong and Aldrin ate in 1969.

When you think of space food, you might think of a very basic dehydrated or tube based meal that you have to quickly scoff before it floats away. In reality, the way astronauts eat and the variety ...