Remember that old Muppet’s skit, “Pigs in Space“? Well, apparently there will soon be kimchi in space. A South Korean astronaut will be staying aboard the International Space Station sometime in the coming months. To help combat homesickness, guest astronauts are allowed to bring foods from their home country. So…
Three top government research institutes spent millions of dollars and several years perfecting a version of kimchi that would not turn dangerous when exposed to cosmic rays or other forms of radiation and would not put off non-Korean astronauts with its pungency.
Read the full articles at the New York Times.
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Comment by inspiredbrio on March 2, 2008 at 4:06 am
:)