Astronaut Spills Wasabi While Trying To Make Sushi In Space (Flying Wasabi)

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CAPE CANAVERAL — Astronauts are always are on guard against toxic spills that could contaminate the international space station.
But there is nothing in their training manuals about how to clean up flying wasabi.

The spicy greenish condiment was squirted out of a tube while astronaut Sunita Williams was trying to make a pretend sushi meal with bag-packaged salmon. The three space station crewmembers are given a certain number of bonus packs of their favorite foods to help endure their months in space where most meals are the equivalent of military MREs.

Since everything is weightless, spilled food is no ordinary clean-up challenge.

"We finally got the wasabi smell out after it was flying around everywhere," Williams told her mother this week in a conversation arranged by Boston radio station WBZ. "We cleaned it up off the walls a little bit."

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Unfortunately for Williams, the wasabi tube has been banished to a cargo vehicle where it will stay packed away.

"I don't think we're going to use it anymore," she said. "It's too dangerous."


http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2007-03-02-wasabi-space_x.htm

[AllegroRondo]

1. so if you were to pass gass in the space station...

how long would it take to get the smell out?

[underpants]

2. Do you know what Sandra Lee says goes well with Wasabi?

Gin

[matcom]

3. ...

:rofl:

[Reverend_Smitty]

4. ROFL

:spray:

[underpants]

5. or

Scotch

or

Bourbon

or

old wine from the glasses in the sink