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Astronauts' Favorite Space Food: Shrimp Cocktail

Rehydrated, ghastly pink, a little bit slimy ... and apparently delicious
Source: Pat Sullivan / AP

Here's the thing about space food. While it might seem exotic to people here on Earth — to people who live in some relative proximity to a farm or a grocery store — space food is awesome only in the sense that it is eaten in space. Otherwise, the stuff is not at all awesome. Space food tends to be dry. Or else slimy. Or else just weird: different enough from the product it's trying to emulate that it serves only

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