Lufthansa adds astronaut food to its airline passenger menu

– The barrier to eating as an astronaut living on the International Space Station astronaut has now been lowered – by about 240 miles.

Lufthansa, the largest airline in Europe, began serving pbadengers one of the same menu items that it developed for German astronaut Alexander Gerst, who launched at the space station in June. Space food, now served at 35,000 feet (10,700 meters) in excess of 250 miles (400 kilometers) above the planet, is available for business clbad pbadengers on long-haul flights originating from Canada. ;Germany.

to enjoy one of the menus that Alexander Gerst and his crew will also receive on board [the station] as special highlights, chicken stew with mushrooms, "Lufthansa announced in a recent press release. Press.

The astronaut becomes an airline In 1965, the stew, accompanied by dishes from the native region of Gerst in Swabia, in southwestern Germany, including maultaschen (pasta stuffed) and spätzle cheese (egg noodles) with bacon, are considered "bonus", increasing the daily menus available to the crew. Bonus meals are usually saved for special occasions, such as a treat during stays of five to six months in the space.

"We certainly want our astronauts to function optimally, so we have to support them." Frank de Winne, the head of the European Astronaut Center in Cologne, Germany, and a former astronaut who has carried out nearly 200 flying days in orbit around the Earth.

For the current Gerst expedition, nicknamed "Horizons" The LSG Group, Lufthansa's catering and hotel business, has developed some of these bonus foods.

LSG's global culinary excellence team worked with the European Space Agency (ESA) to ensure that the menus met the health and safety requirements of the mission. low sodium food and able to maintain a shelf life of two years.

"In order to improve the difficult life of astronauts, we try to offer them a taste of home," said Jörg Hofmann, di rector of Culin, excellence for LSG. "By developing the bonus food, we had to think completely off the beaten path and be able to apply all our knowledge and culinary expertise in a unique way."

LSG prepared six bonus dishes for the Horizons mission to be consumed by Gerst and his teammates Expedition 56/57

"This was a great compliment and achievement for us to receive excellent feedback from the 39, ESA, "Hofmann said in a statement. "We are very excited to see astronauts enjoy our creations in space."

Lufthansa's limited supply of food for astronauts is the latest example of menu items from the space station made available to the public. In addition to the freeze-dried snacks sold in museum and science center shops, the cosmonaut's authentic cuisine has been sold in the vending machines of the All-Russian Exhibition Center in Moscow and Argotec continues to offer through its website was developed for the Italian astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti