Additional nutritional set – these are six containers with food and drinks, which each cosmonaut can take with them to a semi-annual expedition to the International Space Station. Before equipping kits, find out the individual preferences of the crew members. In the list of food products 160-180 names. To evaluate each of them, take a week.
Cosmonauts try only additional food, designed to diversify their diet and replace dishes from the main set. They come on a tasting on a schedule, as well as on classes and workouts. The process itself is as follows: In the medical administration of the Center for the Training of Cosmonauts, a table, in addition to cutlery, is issued a sign with a list of dishes to be evaluated by a nine bull. Sublimated products or, for example, cereals are bred by water according to the instructions. In the process of filing to the table, dishes are voiced.
“Oatmeal, sir!”, – Senior Researcher Hercuage Medical Administration of CPK Andrei Balandin, offering porridge with new fillers: Cherries, raisins, apple. Changes touched and milk. Previously, it was powder, and now sublimated. Food from the “Tubes” left in the past, experts try to make food for astronauts to taste and even look like a “earth”. This approach allows you to expand contacts with food manufacturers. For example, meat canned food supplies one factory, and the melted cheese, including chocolate – the other.
Experienced cosmonauts is easier to decide with additional nutrition. As a rule, they form sets with the preferences of their colleagues-astronauts. Product exchange allows the international crew of the ISS to make the menu even more diverse.
Cosmonaut Denis Matveyev is preparing for his first flight in the crew of the ISS-67.
Tasting includes a schedule for those who are trained in the crews. The exception is now the participants of the space flights, which will spend less than two weeks in orbit. They will be powered by products from the main set, the menu of which is not repeated for 16 days.