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Skylab also had a small refrigerator/freezer and for the first time, astronauts ate real ice cream. By the way, freeze-dried ice cream isn’t real astronaut food. Although the stuff was developed ...

Most people’s idea of space food is freeze-dried ice cream, and that’s not too far off: As much as space travel has changed over the decades, astronauts still eat freeze-dried and commercially ...