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Topic: Rocket ice cream 40th anniversary
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cspg
Member Posts: 6210
From: Geneva, Switzerland
Registered: May 2006
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posted 06-30-2009 08:43 AM
   
I remember that ice cream but I didn't know it came on the market after Apollo 11! Funny.  Ice water ROCKET, the most famous in Switzerland, this year celebrates its 40th anniversary! On 20 July 1969, a sensational event occurs, the first time that a man walking on the moon. Fascinated, millions of viewers watching on television the first pictures of the moon. This is to celebrate this event that launched his FRISCO ROCKET, flying in orbit successfully for 40 years.
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Wehaveliftoff
Member Posts: 2343
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Registered: Aug 2001
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posted 07-01-2009 07:10 PM
I remember an astronaut saying that ice cream was only sold on earth and never actually used up in space. |
Robert Pearlman
Editor Posts: 42981
From: Houston, TX
Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 07-01-2009 07:52 PM
That was true until 2006 (and now its just mostly true) as Michele Perchonok, NASA's manager of the Space Food Systems Laboratory, explained during a segment of an interview that didn't make it into our Thanksgiving article."The [space station's new] freezer went up empty and it wasn't ready to be filled with anything so we were able to fly some ice cream on the [STS-115] shuttle flight. Basically, they froze it really hard, like minus 80 degrees [Fahrenheit] for a few days and then packed it in an insulated box, stowed it on shuttle like hours before it was launching and got it up there. The shuttle crew was under instructions that as soon as they docked, get it over there into the freezer. And they did -- they had ice cream and cake."
According to Perchonok, freeze dried ice cream has also flown -- but only once. | |
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