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Ask most people about freeze-dried food in space and the answer is almost always "astronaut ice cream" — but that famous novelty never actually flew. What did fly, on every single crewed NASA mission since Apollo, was real freeze-dried food....

"Astronaut ice cream" comes up in almost every conversation about freeze-dried food — but the real story behind it is more interesting than the marketing on the package. Where the Story Actually Comes From Freeze-dried ice cream was developed by...