José Andrés

I did it in 2016, 2017. My dream was to send paella, the Spanish rice dish, to the space station.

I did it in 2016, 2017. My dream was to send paella, the Spanish rice dish, to the space station.

You did?

You did?

You did?

You sent it to the space station? I was able to partner with a company called Axiom, A-X-I-O-M, which is one of the companies helping provide services to NASA to bring astronauts, and they will do it also with civilians, to the space station. I was a Spanish astronaut, a Spanish-American astronaut, called López Alegría,

You sent it to the space station? I was able to partner with a company called Axiom, A-X-I-O-M, which is one of the companies helping provide services to NASA to bring astronauts, and they will do it also with civilians, to the space station. I was a Spanish astronaut, a Spanish-American astronaut, called López Alegría,

You sent it to the space station? I was able to partner with a company called Axiom, A-X-I-O-M, which is one of the companies helping provide services to NASA to bring astronauts, and they will do it also with civilians, to the space station. I was a Spanish astronaut, a Spanish-American astronaut, called López Alegría,

And he's like, Jose, in Axiom, we will be interested if you want to do a dish because we are going to be feeding all the astronauts in one of our first trips. And if you are up to it, say, yeah, what do I have to say? And we send Iberico ham. We send paella Valenciana. We sent a pork dish with pisto, which is like a ratatouille, a Spanish ratatouille. And I did it. That's amazing.

And he's like, Jose, in Axiom, we will be interested if you want to do a dish because we are going to be feeding all the astronauts in one of our first trips. And if you are up to it, say, yeah, what do I have to say? And we send Iberico ham. We send paella Valenciana. We sent a pork dish with pisto, which is like a ratatouille, a Spanish ratatouille. And I did it. That's amazing.

And he's like, Jose, in Axiom, we will be interested if you want to do a dish because we are going to be feeding all the astronauts in one of our first trips. And if you are up to it, say, yeah, what do I have to say? And we send Iberico ham. We send paella Valenciana. We sent a pork dish with pisto, which is like a ratatouille, a Spanish ratatouille. And I did it. That's amazing.

But you know the thing I did which is the coolest? What? Because all of that brings new things and new opportunities. So it's this guy called Jim Sears, an amazing engineer, a guy that is crazy for space like you, like me, like so many.

But you know the thing I did which is the coolest? What? Because all of that brings new things and new opportunities. So it's this guy called Jim Sears, an amazing engineer, a guy that is crazy for space like you, like me, like so many.

But you know the thing I did which is the coolest? What? Because all of that brings new things and new opportunities. So it's this guy called Jim Sears, an amazing engineer, a guy that is crazy for space like you, like me, like so many.

And like everything, there is a competition, and the competition is about, right now, astronauts receive the food already cooked, come in those pouches, semi-purees, liquids that they pour into their mouth, and blah. And certain things are okay. The rice we did, I thought, was... Very good, even we had a little issue.

And like everything, there is a competition, and the competition is about, right now, astronauts receive the food already cooked, come in those pouches, semi-purees, liquids that they pour into their mouth, and blah. And certain things are okay. The rice we did, I thought, was... Very good, even we had a little issue.

And like everything, there is a competition, and the competition is about, right now, astronauts receive the food already cooked, come in those pouches, semi-purees, liquids that they pour into their mouth, and blah. And certain things are okay. The rice we did, I thought, was... Very good, even we had a little issue.

We tried to make the paella too by the book, and the paella at the end was a little bit too dry, as a traditional paella is, meaning the grains of rice are fairly loose and separated, one from each other, which on Earth is a sign of a good paella, but in space, if you open the pouch, all of a sudden you start having all those...

We tried to make the paella too by the book, and the paella at the end was a little bit too dry, as a traditional paella is, meaning the grains of rice are fairly loose and separated, one from each other, which on Earth is a sign of a good paella, but in space, if you open the pouch, all of a sudden you start having all those...

We tried to make the paella too by the book, and the paella at the end was a little bit too dry, as a traditional paella is, meaning the grains of rice are fairly loose and separated, one from each other, which on Earth is a sign of a good paella, but in space, if you open the pouch, all of a sudden you start having all those...