Heights business helps get cheese to astronauts on the ISS – KHOU.com

The cheese distributor says they are now working on releasing a special edition space cheese so you can try the same cheese that was sent to the space station.

HOUSTON A Belgium cheese maker and distributor are "out of this world" excited after finding out their cheese has been sent from Belgium all the way to the International Space Station.

It all happened through a Heights cheese shop called Houston Dairymaids.

NASA astronaut Shannon Walker had requested for them to send her cheese for her 210-day journey on the International Space Station.

They did, and she loved the cheese so much, she requested a second shipment!

Now the Belgium maker and distributor of that cheese are feeling the love.

They say the cheese is made on a small dairy farm in West Flanders, and then, they age the cheese in their facility.

They never wouldve thought their cheese would make from Belgium through Houston and up to space.

Very often, Belgium people are not as proud as they should be about their products so it was a very local story and now its international, so yeah, thats great," said Frederic Van Tricht with Kaasaffineurs Van Tricht. "Just delivering it all over the world is already great, but space is something that we never couldve dreamed of."

And get this: the cheese distributor says they are now working on releasing a special edition space cheese so you can try the same cheese that was sent to the space station.

But be patient. They say it could be two months before you see it back in the Houston Dairymaids store.

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