Marianne Summerall

The menu includes a wide variety of foods with things like spicy green beans, tropical fruit salad, and maple cream cookies.

In a NASA video about eating in space, astronaut Christina Cook says foods you wouldn't even imagine being rehydrated are actually good.

NASA's Norm Knight, the director of the Flight Operations Directorate, says NASA tracks each meal to ensure the crew's health.

Each crew member was able to help sample and craft their own menu preferences before launch.

For NPR News, I'm Marion Summerall in Orlando.

The menu includes a wide variety of foods with things like spicy green beans, tropical fruit salad, and maple cream cookies.

In a NASA video about eating in space, astronaut Christina Cook says foods you wouldn't even imagine being rehydrated are actually good.

NASA's Norm Knight, the director of the Flight Operations Directorate, says NASA tracks each meal to ensure the crew's health.

Each crew member was able to help sample and craft their own menu preferences before launch.

For NPR News, I'm Marion Summerall in Orlando.

We have a food lab and we have folks at the Johnson Space Center tracking what they eat, the nutrition, the calories.

It makes a difference.

It's a wild guess, but there is some science involved in it.