US EditionChinese astronauts enjoy handover BBQ in world first on board space station
- On October 31, the Shenzhou-21 crewed spacecraft delivered an oven to the Tiangong space station, where six astronauts cooked chicken wings for 28 minutes and later prepared steak.
- As part of improving orbital living conditions, the China National Space Agency introduced a hot-air oven to enhance food variety, texture, flavour, and nutrition, expanding the menu from 10 days to 190 items for long-duration and deep space missions.
- Engineers added features like a residue collector, rotating basket, and raised the temperature from 100 to 190°C, enabling genuine cooking, said Liu Weibo, deputy chief designer of the astronaut system with China Astronaut Research and Training Center.
- The China Manned Space Agency announced on Wednesday that the return of three astronauts was postponed after a suspected small debris strike, following the freshly baked meal event.
- The video quickly went viral across social media, spreading on Chinese-language platforms and Western sites like Reddit and TikTok, while China National Space Agency framed the oven as a shift from reheating to real cooking, building on the International Space Station 2020 cookie experiment.
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Footage shared by China Central Television shows taikonauts (Chinese astronauts) barbecuing in space for the first time ever.
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