By the way, freeze-dried ice cream isn’t real astronaut food. Although the stuff was developed for NASA and even appears in the Apollo 7 press kit (PDF, page 83), it has never flown into space ...

The average astronaut has also changed quite a bit, too. At first, they were all young and super-fit ex-military men, but nowadays they are more likely to be middle-aged science-y types and women.

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ice cream, sweets, coffee, tea, smoothies, and even alcohol (without the intoxicating effects). Kaziukoniene said that these can even be created to an astronaut’s personal tastes, too ...

On the way to the ISS, these freezers will sometimes be stocked with ice cream for the astronauts to enjoy. As for that freeze-dried “astronaut ice cream” that’s sold in some museum gift shops?