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21.08.2023 - 11:41 / theunconventionalgardener.com / Emma Doughty
Food for the astronauts on the International Space Station (ISS) is usually delivered well in advance. They get a few fresh treats whenever a cargo ship arrives (or if they grow their own!), but they’re a bit too far away to order take out.
Or are they?
Japanese billionaire space tourist Yusaku Maezawa is currently on the ISS with his assistant Yozo Hirano. They launched on a Russian Soyuz rocket on 8th December 2021, and are due to return to Earth on the 20th.
Maezawa obviously ordered in, because on 11th December Uber Eats delivered its first meal in space!
The delivery of ready-to-eat canned Japanese dishes to the astronauts at the International Space Station was made at 9:40 am EST, having travelled 248 miles in 8 hours and 34 minutes.
(It looks as though the package must have travelled on the same Soyuz as Maezawa and Hirano, as there have been no launches since then.)
In a change from the regular space food menu, the special delivery included boiled mackerel in miso, beef bowl cooked in sweet sauce, and simmered chicken with bamboo shoots.
“One small handoff for Yusaku Maezawa, one giant delivery for Uber Eats! We’re over the moon to have helped make our first successful delivery to space. Our goal is to help people go anywhere and get anything, so we’re proud to serve the astronauts at the International Space Station. Yusaku Maezawa gets a thumbs up on this delivery, even though it took a bit longer than the usual 30 minutes to arrive.
This isn’t the first food delivery to arrive at the space station. In May 2001, Pizza Hut became the first company in the world to deliver a pizza to outer space. Their pizza also travelled on a Soyuz rocket and was then eaten by cosmonaut Yuri Usachov.
It was a special order, with extra
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