Top Chef to feed the astronauts

 

The American program Top Chef on the Bravo Channel (a reality TV cookery competition) focused on food for the astronauts during the episode on 1 September.  In fact, the competitors had to design a dish intended to be eaten in orbit since NASA will use the winning recipe. For the purposes of this episode, the producers filmed footage at the American agency’s Johnson Space Centre in Houston and the moonwalker Buzz Aldrin (Apollo 11) was a guest star on the show.

Top Chef, “Gastro-nauts” episode

Published 2 September 2010

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