NASA spent months engineering the perfect menu for the Artemis II mission. And It’s surprisingly tasty: barbecued beef brisket, broccoli au gratin, vegetable quiche, five types of hot sauce, and way, way more. Because bread is banned in space (crumbs can damage precision instruments), there are 58 tortillas. There are cashews and almonds, mango salad and butternut squash, and more than 10 types of beverages, all culminating into 189 unique food items. One item in particular this week was Nutella, which stole the show just moments before the Artemis II astronauts broke a 56-year-old record and became the humans furthest from Earth when they slingshot back from the far side of the Moon.
But perhaps one food item not on the list will be the one that the Artemis II crew will talk about forever: Uncrustables.
