Media Invited For 'Taste' Of Space

Allard Beutel
Headquarters, Washington November 7, 2003
(Phone: 202/358-4769)

Nicole Cloutier-Lemasters
Johnson Space Center (JSC), Houston
(Phone: 281/483-5111)

NOTE TO EDITORS: N03-115

MEDIA INVITED FOR "TASTE" OF SPACE

How do you prepare a tasty Thanksgiving meal that must be
packaged months in advance, sent to Russia for shipping,
require no refrigeration, and be eaten without creating
crumbs?

Enter Vickie Kloeris, Subsystem Manager for the Space Shuttle
and International Space Station Space Food Systems. Kloeris
leads the team that plans and prepares the meals for the U.S.
astronaut corps, including the two people living aboard the
Space Station and spending this holiday season orbiting 240
miles overhead.

Media are invited for a special behind-the-scenes opportunity
to see and experience the Space Food Systems Laboratory where
"space food" is developed, packaged, tested and tasted.

Participants will:
Taste a space food meal;
Tour the food lab kitchen where space meals are prepared,
packaged and tested;
Interview top "chef" and food scientist Kloeris and others
involved in planning and preparation of U.S. space food,
including astronauts; and
Prepare space food using a shuttle galley mock-up.

An update on the International Space Station Program will be
available and individual interview requests will be
accommodated.

Media planning to attend must fax a request for press
accreditation to the JSC Newsroom, at 281/483-2000, before 6
p.m. EST Nov. 14.

For more information about NASA on the Internet, visit:

http://www.nasa.gov


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