NASA has revealed what space sushi looks like with a picture of the dish aboard the International Space Station. The image of pale meats atop the beloved Japanese dish’s nori and asteroids of rice appears features famously non-perishable spam. Astronauts cooped up for months aboard the ISS also get to chow down on alarmingly orange “shrimp cocktail” as well as pizza using tortillas. The space agency’s Instagram post lifted the lid on how astronauts prepare food from “around the world,” incorporating non-perishable, space-efficient ingredients. “Almost all of our astronauts’ food currently has to blast off from Earth in jam-packed spacecraft, and it has to be shelf-stable and mess-free,” NASA wrote. “That doesn’t mean it has to be *boring*, though. Our orbiting crew chows down on meals from
NASA Raises Eyebrows With Picture of Astronauts’ ‘Space Sushi’

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