Space Food for Gourmets
ESA TV Exchanges
The daily life of astronauts in space is always of interest - this is why today's Exchange gives an overview of the meals served on the ISS on normal days and at special occasions. The programme also outlines the underlying nutritional and psychological factors that determine what astronauts are eating when in orbit.
The script is online as a PDF file under http://television.esa.int/photos/EbS51186.pdf
A WMV preview clip is online under http://esatv-movies.e-vision.nl/videos/mphi/spacefood_06-03-07_wmphigh.wmv
A broadcast quality Mpeg-2 file (975 MB) is online. If you don't have your ftp-userid and password yet, please go to http://television.esa.int/subscribe.cfm

SHOTLIST ""SPACE FOOD""
10 00 00 Generic A-ROLL
10 00 30 Title
10 00 40 A Sicilian starter followed by roast quail in a wine sauce and rice pudding with dried fruit... What sounds like a Michelin-starred restaurant dinner is actually a new generation of space food. This menu, a festive change from daily routine for ESA astronaut Thomas Reiter and his fellow crew members on board of the international space station, had been prepared in the gourmet laboratories of French chef Alain Ducasse.
10 01 08 CLIP Quentin Vicas, Space food project manager, Alain Ducasse ëWe wanted to give them a break from the routine, from their daily meals of freezedried food. So theyíre stored in aluminium tins, they keep their colour and their texture, they look like something you would find on Earth so the astronauts eating it are reminded of the food back on Earthí
10 01 34 Food in space has certainly evolved since the early missions! Above all it must supply each astronaut with the necessary daily i