🎬 Space Food (太空食品)
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Since the start of human spaceflight, NASA has worked to improve the quality and variety自人类开始太空飞行以来，NASA一直在改善航天员食品的质量和种类，
of food for its astronauts.为航天员提供更好的食物。
NASA food scientists design special menus that provide astronauts with the food they needNASA的食品科学家设计专门的菜单，为航天员提供他们所需的食物，
to live in space for long durations.帮助他们在太空中长期生活。
Eating on Earth is very different from eating in space.在地球上吃东西与在太空中吃东西大不相同。
Space food needs to be easy to hold and eat in zero gravity.太空食品需要在零重力环境中容易拿取和食用。
It also needs to be healthy and taste good.它还必须健康、味道好。
This is NASA's Space Food Systems Laboratory.这里是NASA的太空食品系统实验室。
Here, NASA's space food scientists work to improve the astronaut's food.在这里，NASA的太空食品科学家努力改善航天员的食物。
It's important that the astronauts get a balanced diet.确保航天员获得均衡饮食十分重要。
A lot of the food the astronauts eat is freeze-dried.航天员吃的很多食物都是冻干的。
When food is freeze-dried, most of the water is removed from inside it,在冻干过程中，食物内部大部分水分被去除，
so the food becomes much lighter.因此食物变得轻得多。
Also, freeze-dried food can be kept for a long time without needing to be stored in a fridge.此外，冻干食物无需冷藏就可以长时间保存。
Astronauts rarely get the chance to make their own food,航天员很少有机会自己制作食物，
but it does happen on special occasions.但在一些特别的场合，他们确实会这样做。
These astronauts are enjoying a pizza party.这些航天员正在享受一场披萨派对。
When Italian astronaut Paolo Nespoli mentioned to his team on Earth how much he missed his favorite food,意大利航天员保罗·内斯波利告诉地面团队，他非常想念自己最喜欢的食物，
NASA sent a variety of ingredients on the next supply ship.于是NASA用下一艘补给船送去了多种食材。
This included pre-cooked pizza bases, tomato sauce, cheese wedges,其中包括预先烹制的披萨饼底、番茄酱、奶酪块，
and various topping options, including olives and pepperoni.以及多种配料，包括橄榄和意大利辣香肠。
The astronauts used scissors to slice the floating pizzas,航天员用剪刀剪开漂浮的披萨，
but only after letting them spin around in microgravity for fun.不过在那之前，他们先让披萨在微重力中旋转取乐。
Before You Watch
In 1962, astronaut John Glenn became the first man to eat anything in the zero gravity environment of Earth orbit. He found the task of eating fairly easy, but wasn’t so impressed with the menu—apple sauce packed in a tube, sugar tablets, and water. The food eaten by astronauts has improved a lot since these early days of space travel. Modern astronauts stay in space for longer durations, so a tasty and balanced diet is essential.
B. What do you think are the most important things to consider when creating food for astronauts? Space food needs to be …
While You Watch
B. Watch the video again. Note answers to the questions.
Critical Thinking · Evaluating Items. Rate these foods 1–5 (5 = great space food; 1 = terrible space food): breakfast cereal, cheese, chicken legs, dried fruit, instant noodles, nuts, potato chips, sashimi, soup. Share your reasons.
Vocabulary Review
Reading A: 10 Target Words
Reading B: 10 Target Words
🏆 Reading Explorer 2 · Unit 1 大满贯荣誉证书
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