1. Astronaut Ice Cream History and Fun Facts By: Ethan S, sixth grade orange team

2. What is Astronaut Ice Cream? The basic explanation for that is this: freeze dried ice cream. The way to make it is to freeze dry ice cream, and there you have it! But the thing is, freeze drying things is not very easy.

3. FREEZE DRYING Step one: Freeze it. Step two: This is the part you can not do at home. You put the frozen ice cream into a vacuum chamber. This extracts the water, drying out the product. They use low temperature heat, as low as 95 degrees. There is ice on the product after this process. Step three: Now, get the ice off the product. After this, you have successfully freeze dried your product, which in this case, made astronaut ice cream.

4. Did you know? Astronaut ice cream was invented before Apollo 7? It was enjoyed by most astronauts on the ship. Even more interesting, that was the only time it was taken into space!

5. Different kinds  People make the normal bag of it, without anything on it. Just normal astronaut ice cream, but different flavors. On the website Vat 19.com, they make little beads of ice cream and astronaut ice cream sandwiches! How clever.  Vat 19.com link: https://www.vat19.com/item/astronaut-ice-cream-space- foodhttps://www.vat19.com/item/astronaut-ice-cream-space- food

6. Comparison Normal astronaut ice cream Astronaut ice cream sandwiches

7. How did it change over time? The normal astronaut ice cream today hasn’t changed much over time, still the same brands. They might have changed the freeze drying method, but it is still all basically the same. There are most likely newer flavors that have been freeze dried more recently, but most of the time, you will find vanilla flavored astronaut ice cream.

8. Different opinions It`s good!  Some people like astronaut ice cream, and like to have it on occasion. I`ll pass.  On the other hand, other people think it is not very good, and would pass on an offer.

10. Vat 19.com link: https://www.vat19.com/item/astronaut-ice-cream-space-foodhttps://www.vat19.com/item/astronaut-ice-cream-space-food