Developed by a high school student in Fukui Mackerel cans are expected to be provided to Soichi Noguchi on September 29, 23:19
Canned mackerel developed by students of a prefectural high school in Fukui Prefecture will be delivered to the International Space Station as space food and will be provided to Soichi Noguchi, a Japanese astronaut who is planning to stay. It was.
Prefectural Wakasa High School in Obama City, Fukui Prefecture has been working on the development of space food for 14 years, and canned mackerel seasoned with local chub mackerel can withstand changes in gravity and pressure at the time of launch. After clearing the standards, it was certified as a space food for the first time by a high school student developed by Otoshi JAXA = Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency.
According to JAXA, while Japanese astronaut Soichi Noguchi was launched on a private American spacecraft on the 31st of next month and staying at the International Space Station, the mackerel cans of Wakasa High School are also different. It has been decided that it will be delivered to the space station by the transport ship of.
It is expected to be provided to aviators as space food during the six months that Noguchi and his colleagues will stay at the International Space Station.
Yasuyuki Kosaka, a teacher at the Department of Marine Science, Wakasa High School, said, "I can't express the thoughts of students and graduates in space except when I'm happy. I'm looking forward to the moment when Mr. Noguchi actually eats."