There are countless movies about the heroism and excitement of being an astronaut.

These movies focus on adventure, risk taking and what happens when things go wrong.

Though these high stakes scenarios are exciting, they ignore the fascinating day to day experiences of astronauts that are realistic but also incredible.

Today, we're going to show you exactly what astronauts are eating in space right now in order to stay alive and stay saying so.

We are here with Natalie from the Canadian Space Agency What we would be gonna be doing.

NASA has a standard menu that they provide on the space station.

So today you're gonna be trying a collection of American and Canadian foods.

Okay, we're gonna actually blindfold used taste the space food, and guess what you're eating.

Assume it will be nutrition.

It feels like pasta.

I don't want to put the actually dehydrated.

Explain the text.

So interesting thing in space.

People have a difficult time smelling when they first get into space, because all the fluid shifts towards their because they're not exposed to gravity.

They would really struggled to smell things and to taste things, especially the first few weeks.

Something like broccoli number red pepper.

What we look for when we're looking for space food is that there's no fridge or freezer on space station, so we need product shelf lives.

Is it actually curry curry?

Is it literally is not like me like a nutty flavor.

My liver is you like something.

It's a chicken cashew curry.

Wow!

How long, on average or the in space?

Like usually for six months.

So it's nice to have, like, a variety of meals.

Otherwise you go like, kind of a little crazy.

And that's one of the reasons why we have a lot of variety on orbit.

People don't get forward, so there's the psychological side of things.

But then there's also the physiological side of things.

So we designed the menu so that there's three meals a day and we kind of applying for like a day menu cycles.

There's three meals a day.

How long do restaurants usually sleep so they are scheduled for like eight hours, period?

They don't necessarily sleep, but it's like schedule for Do try to keep track of their work schedules much as possible.

You don't want them to overwork, but they got some work.

I mean, Taxpayersdollars, you know, but usually form is not that they don't do enough.

Oh my God, I tasted hot dog.

Oh, shrimp, shrimp and shrimp.

It's right.

Shrimp cocktail.

Yeah, this is one of the most popular dishes on.

The reason that this is so popular is because it's spicy when restaurants have a head would food ship and they feel like they have this head cold.

Something like this has got a lot of spice and flavour on space station.

There's a water dispenser that dispenses warm and it flies dehydrated, and then you add water ready.

Teoh warms rehydrated trip are cold, Capri sun strong.

So this is a space straw, and it actually has a lock on it, so that when you're in space gravity lock for a while, it sometimes gets.

Also, I feel Velcro Is that because you stick into a wall that's right, so you don't want to have your food floating all of the whole station that just tastes like every fruit.

One.

I think it's more raspberry.

I can give you a hint okay to fruits like me.

And you match too.

I love how this is just so space looks like.

Oh, yeah, I know it's a space version.

Eso when you think about our Dervis, what kind of seafood would you?

Some prob, But it's crab.

That's brown.

It's like a crab pot eyes there.

Any refrigeration in space?

There's a very small refrigerator that they can use for condiments.

What about like, once you open this, would you want to finish it all?

So sometimes crews will get together for to celebrate special occasions just like we do on the ground for Davidson jockeys gonna be in space during Christmas on also during New Year so their crew would usually get together.

Have you?

You can just pick up and eat anyone who is not Canadian of you haven't tasted this You haven't loved before.

What Una is it?

No, it hasn't.

Texture of tuna falling apart, but it tastes like meat.

Yeah.

Okay, so this is a Canadian product.

Favor salmon?

Yes, and it has maybe a bit of a hint of something.

Mable syrup?

Yes.

Do this Space agencies just all work together.

I think that's one of the main benefits of international space Station is just international cooperation, right?

But the news No escape?

No, this night, Yeah, you know, give it up, give it up.

So you, Russia and Europe and Japan as well.

And when you speak to astral, especially come back from space, they say, when you look at the Earth, any border from bad in the perspective.

Most interesting is that David ST John's mission is called perspective.

Oh, so Greg is a special treat for you.

Oh, this is Greg's drug, A literally a metaphor for my life, a double double on and also that the water is so essential and David State jackals will be going with water.

So actually, when he flies and his rocket, it's just to bring the crew up.

And this is a very small amount of room in that vehicle for other things.

Andan.

They have other vehicles that will go to space that just take just like someone's in there.

No.

What?

So there's a Russian vehicle that's unmanned called Progress, and then the Americans are now flying commercial vehicles.

So there's two companies that are flying commercial vehicles.

Musk, one of them you.

How does it talk?

It has.

So that's a good question.

And depending on the vehicle, sometimes they will use the Canadarm Canadarm Don't know.

If you guys know about that is a national treasure.

It's on our money.

Without the Canadarm two, which is on space station, we wouldn't have been able to put the space station together.

So it literally had to piece all the difficult s being on money is like Well, yeah, it's something to be very, very proud of.

You asked about water and so we do ship some water onto space station.

But then we also do a lot of recycling.

So all the water that's on space station, we'll get collected and recycled.

There's a systems up there that that will collect urine.

So that will become your water for the what?

Mona P.

Where does the number to go?

Not recycled, right?

I think it just started Teoh.

Wow.

So the environmental control system will collect all the compensate.

So you know, when you read in the air anyone they are houses.

Ball two.

That's one of the reasons that we have space stations floor further on.

Long story short the future involves drinking your own pee David state JAXA Canadian astronaut him was going to space on social media were about all the description below because he's gonna be documenting all that, his preparation of going to space.

All the interesting thing is that we were just sort of starting to tackle here.

He will be talking about the idiosyncrasies going so But all the scripts there you can follow along, I know we will.

All right.

Well, that was our taste falls.

Space food.

I'm very satiated.

Want to say thank you so much for coming into the Canadian Space Agency for allowing us to chow down on all your thanks for watching this so called going spaces way.

Should all be thinking about the game perspective.

Yeah, thank you so much.