Food becomes very important an isolation and confinement. We hear that astronauts might lose their sense of taste in zeroge or in space. Is that true? Some astronauts come back and say the food tasted different, or they didn't taste it as much as they would on earth. And there's also a lot of competing aromas on the international space station. If you ever live in an enclosed environment with five other people, so theyre not juste word i roma, but you really mean stank.
How good is food in space? Neil deGrasse Tyson and comic co-host Jordan Klepper feast on food science and the challenges we face sending food to space with chef Alton Brown, food chemist Dr. Arielle Johnson and NASA food scientist Dr. Grace Douglas.
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