Space Food on Sale

The All-Russian Exhibition Center in Moscow now begins to sell authentic cosmonaut food to the public， the state-run Sputnik news service reported. It is marketing the cosmic cuisine in toothpaste-like tubes. "Visitors will have （1）

c to try a full-course cosmonaut menu， including four kinds of soups， various meat dishes and a （2） v of desserts， and there will be eleven variations of tubes， each tasting like a different kind of food，" the Sputnik news service said.

The selection includes lamb and pork with vegetables， cottage cheese dessert with fruit. The tubes， which are offered through a vending machine cost 300 rubles， or about $4.50， each. They are produced by the same （3） f and using the same methods as the food that is prepared for the Russian cosmonauts onboard the International Space （4） S .

"Producers do not use any genetically-modified （A） p and assure that the food in the tubes is made from natural ingredients only，" the center added.

The new Russian vending machine is not the first time that space food samples have been sold to the （B） p . Boxed Russian cosmonaut meals have been offered in the past and freeze-dried American foods， including "（C） a " ice cream （which flew into space only once， onboard Apollo 7 in 1968） are commonly （D） o in museum gift shops.

Space food packaged in tubes was common to both the early Russian and American crewed flights of the 1960s. Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin， who in April 1961 became the first human to launch into space， had tubes of meat paste and chocolate sauce aboard his Vostok capsule. Similarly John Glenn， the United States' first （5） s in orbit and the first NASA astronaut to eat any type of food in space， had beef and vegetables packed into an aluminum tube on his February 1962 Mercury （E） m .

（A， B， C， D， E FOR CROSS， 1， 2， 3， 4， 5 FOR DOWN. The first letters of the absents were given）