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Quails for lunch aboard Atlantis
Paris (AFP) Dec 7, 2007 Quails cooked by star French chef Alain Ducasse are on the menu for the seven crew due to take off on the US space shuttle Atlantis this weekend. Quails stuffed with Madiran wine, accompanied by nutmeg-flavoured celeriac mash and followed up by a chocolate fondant dessert, are among the 10 different Ducasse meals shipped to NASA for the flight, his company said. Breakfast delights include an omelette with herbs, while a Sicilian "caponata", with pureed tomatos and peppers, is among the appetisers. Ducasse, who is supplying the gourmet fare as part of an agreement with the European Space Agency and France's CNES space centre, sent the same meals on the Russian spaceship Progress launched in October 2006. NASA postponed the planned launch of Atlantis from Friday to Saturday due to technical problems. Atlantis is to ferry crew, including Frenchman Leopold Eyharts and German Hans Schlegel, to the International Space Station. Community Email This Article Comment On This Article Related Links Space Tourism, Space Transport and Space Exploration News
Richard Branson Trains For Virgin Galactic Spaceflight At The NASTAR Center
Southampton PA (SPX) Dec 06, 2007Environmental Tectonics reports that Richard Branson, Founder of the Virgin Group, has successfully completed a space flight training course at the NASTAR Center, which is the National Aerospace Training and Research Center. He undertook this training in preparation for a flight aboard SpaceShipTwo, the suborbital vehicle his company Virgin Galactic is developing along with Burt Rutan of Scaled Composites. |
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