Food ... on Shenzhou 6

On the Shenzhou 6 board, how do Chinese astronauts eat? They have a lot of delicious food but are not sure how delicious it is in space conditions .

Drinking water bag

The designer of meals for the Shenzhou 6 astronauts, a researcher of Bach Thu Dan space aerospace medicine research laboratory, said: during the flight, astronauts will be used meals like time at home with their favorite dishes. Food for them is not fast food, so it must ensure the color, taste, taste and shape for astronauts to have a delicious meal.

Orbital compartments and feedback compartments have different functions. The orbital compartment has a wider space, so astronauts often stay here for most of the time, so the amount of food is often stored in this compartment more to ensure their nutritional balance. This normal food is the same as what they normally use when on the ground. They include fried rice with vegetables, drinking water, dried fruits and vegetables, breakfast items, spices ., they can even make tea to drink.

When the orbital cavity and feedback chambers are separated from each other, astronauts sit in the feedback compartments back to Earth, the food for them is the food used during rushing. Although most food is the same as the orbital chamber, but because there is no water tank in the feedback compartment, it will not provide water-absorbing food like dry vegetables, they must use solid foods and just drink water in special bags. Experts also prepared in the compartment a number of emergency food items such as feedback chambers that did not return to the right trajectory or landed in another location, while waiting for rescue. , astronauts will use emergency food in the form of dry pressed cake.

The food tray with the rope The environment in the spacecraft will make the astronauts' bodies produce some reactions, for example, the throat will be swollen, the function of stimulating the appetite will decrease, the sense of sensitivity is poor, the nose being impatient, it felt as if I had a cold, and the air in the cabin did not circulate, so the astronauts could only see the food without smelling the taste, the astronauts did not feel like eating. but still ensure meals to maintain nutritional balance. The traveler's tray is specially designed with the ligament on the bottom of the tray, when the rope is eaten, it will be tied around the thigh to fix the tray.


According to the introduction of Mr. Pho Lam - the designer, former head of the network protection system and the airship environment control, for the first time, the ship of Shen Chau 6 was fitted with a food heating machine shaped like a one. Large clamps, clamps used to clamp sealed food bags and then connect to the power source, after about 30 minutes can heat 140 grams of rice to the right temperature. The capacity of a food heater is about 300W, if on the ground only needs about 10 minutes to heat, the time to heat food in the feedback chamber must be prolonged due to the air in the circulation chamber is weak.

Tuyet Nhung ( According to Xinhua )