00:00I've only been eating space food for a couple days here, but Christina, she lived in space for pretty close
00:06to a year.
00:07She's eaten a lot of space food, and so we have a few items here to show you.
00:11Christina, you want to help me out?
00:12Sure.
00:13Let's see what we're going to pull out.
00:15This is my dinner.
00:17This is Jeremy's dinner, and in space you really just eat all of your food out of bags of some
00:23kind,
00:23plastic bags or little metallic bags because we have to rehydrate a lot of our food.
00:31This is actually shrimp cocktail, and this has been rehydrated already,
00:38so we added water to it, and the shrimp soaked back up the water, and it's actually pretty tasty.
00:44This is an example of a food that has not been rehydrated yet.
00:49It got all dried out for flying up here in space, and those are green beans.
00:54So we do have to eat our vegetables even in space, but don't worry.
00:57They do give us mac and cheese.
00:59Thanks.
01:00Parker from Apsley, Ontario, has a question.
01:04Why does water become spherical in space?
01:07Well, my crewmates lived on board the International Space Station for a significant amount of time,
01:13and so they've done a lot of playing with water, and so they were giving me a tutorial today at
01:17lunch.
01:18So maybe I'll just get Reed to give you the tutorial that he gave me right now.
01:24Oh, let me.
01:28Well, here you can see the spherical balls that I just let loose in the cabin.
01:37All right, Reed.
01:39There's another one going over there, but it's really the surface tension.
01:44If you ever just see a little drop of water on your finger, even though it looks like a convex
01:51little drop on your finger in space,
01:54that surface tension is all around, so it just creates a perfect bubble because there's no gravity to act on
01:59it.
02:00And so it just stays in this perfect sphere, and it actually becomes a lens.
02:03And earlier today, we were laughing because we could make Jeremy's face go upside down or right side up,
02:08and it's pretty amazing.
02:11It's fun to play with water and space.
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