Cookies: First Food Made Outside Earth

Monday 27th of January 2020

Cookies: First Food Made Outside Earth

In an experiment in outer space, Astronauts baked the cookies in a special zero-gravity oven at the International Space Station. This makes Chocolate chip cookies have become the first food to be baked in space in a first-of-its-kind experiment.

The big question is: How do they taste? A spokesman for Double Tree, the company that supplied the dough, told the BBC the cookies would "soon undergo additional testing by food science professionals to determine the final results of the experiment"

While it takes 20 minutes to bake a cookie on Earth, a space cookie is made in over a hour. Tweeting from space in 26th December, Ms Koch, a NASA astronaut, wrote about making the cookies in space: We made space cookies and milk for Santa this year. Happy holidays from the Space Station.

As the public is excited to know how different the cookies taste, the results will help experts with future efforts to make long-duration space travel more hospitable.