Astronauts bake pizza on a spacecraft... and send the video to Earth
A video clip from the International Space Station recently spread of a group of astronauts preparing a plate of pizza, which raised astonishment and raised a number of questions.
According to the Indian news website Republic World, French astronaut Thomas Pesquet published the one-minute video clip, which showed a group of 6 astronauts aboard the International Space Station enjoying preparing pizza, as it was particularly interesting to watch them collect the contents of the pizza to put it on a dough. floating in space in front of them.
Pesquet described the session as a "floating pizza party" that evokes his enjoyment of a fast-food Saturday night on Earth.
In the video, which was shared under the name "Floating Pizza Night," he explained: "They say a good chef never reveals his secrets, but I made a video for you to be the jury. Everything is here, except for the pineapple adding it would be a serious crime in Italy."
The video spread strongly in photo-sharing applications, and within 18 hours of its publication, it garnered thousands of views and thousands of comments, and one of them asked: "Why does pizza float while the materials you put on it stay fixed on the pizza? This is a mystery," while another said: "Space pizza Pretty cool, there's definitely a bigger challenge to making pizza in space."
Earlier in August, NASA launched the Syngnos spacecraft for Northrop Grumman to resupply science equipment and shipping, with a shipment that included fresh apples, tomatoes and kiwis, along with a set of pizzas and types of cheese for the astronauts crouching in the spacecraft. International Space Station on August 12.
Meanwhile, the space agency explained the reason why objects remain suspended in space, citing the phenomenon of free fall, because in a vacuum, gravity causes all objects to fall at the same rate of acceleration.
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