April 23, 2026
Great Moments in Space Food: The Great Space Burrito Incident
When Salsa Goes Rogue on the ISS Welcome back to Great Moments in Space Food, the series where we celebrate every time humanity tried to...
Blog and Sensible Drivel
From Regret Paste to
Resilient Food Systems
Space food science, history, and the case for CRISPR microgreens in orbit.
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May 7, 2026
Why Astronauts Come Home Looking Like They Lost a Bar Fight...
How Fresh Greens can make major strides in the human body fighting back. Spending months in space is basically the universe’s most expensive way to beat the shit out of your body. Astronauts return...
April 7, 2026
How Gastronaut Is Engineering Better Crops for Space
When most people hear “CRISPR,” they think of futuristic medicine or sci-fi gene editing. At Gastronaut, we’re using it for something far...
March 25, 2026
Great Moments In Space Food: Space Ice Cream
Crumbly Lies from the Gift Shop and Lessons in Space Marketing Look, we’ve all been that wide-eyed little sucker in the museum gift shop,...
March 10, 2026
Space Nutrition: From Regret Paste to a Resilient Food System
Executive Summary: Space exploration demands more than rockets and suits. It requires food that sustains human life over months or years....
February 24, 2026
Great Moments in Space Food: The Corned Beef Sandwich
Great Moments in Space Food: The Corned Beef Sandwich That Almost Doomed Gemini 3 (And Congress's Sanity) Picture the scene: March 1965....
February 12, 2026
Why Astronauts Dream of Potato Chips
Mike Massimino, four-time spacewalker and certified legend, once dropped this gem: “I wanted something that fought back when I bit it.”He...
January 26, 2026
Nourishing the Cosmos
Nourishing the Cosmos: The Organic Relationship Between Plants and Humans in Space Exploration: In the vast silence of space, where gravity...
January 12, 2026
Welcome to Gastronaut: The Space Food Aggregator
We're Tired of Astronauts Eating Like Sad Hamsters Look, space is cool. Zero gravity? Awesome. Views of Earth from orbit? Stunning... But...