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Space food has come a long way since 1966 when this photo was taken of a NASA test subject consuming a meal of pot roast and gravy through a feeding tube pack aboard a Gemini spacecraft mockup. Photo by Underwood Archives/Getty Images

In space, green beans taste like grass and sliced strawberries are repulsively sweet. Thats according to NASA astronaut Douglas Wheelock, who spent more than 178 days living and eating aboard the International Space Station and space shuttle Discovery.

The astronaut palate is a mysterious thing. Some say their favorite foods taste like plastic in space. Others say flavor gets better. What is undisputed is that a persons taste for something on Earth cant be trusted in orbit.

This is partly because the bodys fluids realign in microgravity, causing nasal congestion, says Pamela Dalton, a researcher at the Monell Chemical Senses Center. Swelling in the nasal passage also obstructs the transport of odor molecules to their receptors, which, Dalton said, can translate to a 70 percent reduction in flavor. After a few weeks the swelling subsides, but some congestion remains.

Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield known by earthlings as the guy who performed a rendition of David Bowies Space Oddity while commander of the International Space Station said being in space was like suffering a perpetual head cold.

Imagine standing on your head for hours, he said. Its kind of like that.

To compensate, astronauts have been known to go heavy on the hot sauce. Wasabi, Louisiana hot sauce, peppery olive oil and Tabasco clutter the ISS cabinets.

The perennial favorite? Shrimp cocktail freeze-dried shrimp and a tomato-based sauce with bits of horseradish.

Its got a really strong, searing, wasabi kind of cut to the flavor that opens up the sinuses, Hadfield said. Moreover, the distinctive texture of shrimp that fibrous chewiness survives rehydration better than other foods.

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Less than a week after Russia threatened to stop its work on the International Space Station (ISS), NASA's chief said work on the orbiter will continue on with, or without, Russia's cooperation.

NASA Administrator Charles Bolden, speaking to a group of reporters in Berlin on Monday, said no single nation is indispensable and the U.S. space agency fully intends to continue its work with the space station through at least 2024 as expected .

Bolden "was saying the five major partner countries that make up the International Space Station have an inter-related relationship," said a NASA spokesman in an email to Computerworld. "No single nation can end the ISS partnership."

While Bolden said that no one country can shutter the space station, Russia has been playing a critical role.

The U.S., along with other nations, have depended on Russia to ferry astronauts back and forth to the space station since NASA retired its fleet of space shuttles in 2011.

To lessen the partners' dependence on Russia, NASA is aiming to launch astronauts from U.S. soil again by 2017.

Bolden's remarks this week were another stage in the escalating conflict between the U.S. and Russia over their partnership to operate and maintain the space station, along with Europe, Japan and Canada.

The trouble started in April when NASA announced that because of Russia's aggressive actions in Ukraine, the U.S. was scaling back its work with Russia's space agency. At the time of the announcement, NASA was working on a list of projects it might cancel or exclude Russia from participating in. The space agency has not specified what those projects are.

NASA, though, made it clear that it would work with the Russian Federation to continue the safe and continued operation of the space station.

Russia, however, turned up the heat.

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