In 1961, an astronaut made history by being the first human to eat in space while on orbit whizzing around Earth.
The meal was beef and liver paste followed by chocolate sauce all squeezed from a tube - so not exactly fine dining.
But the liquid dinner proved that humans could eat and swallow without gravity and not have any strange side effects, despite the food being less than appetising.
Luckily, the menu NASA now offers to astronauts is a lot tastier than it was some 50 years ago, but not without some trial and error.
Crewmembers can choose from around 200 different items that can even be tailored to personal preference.
With no fridges and freezers on the International Space Station (ISS), freeze dried food was first introduced for missions lasting up to two weeks, according to NASA.
Astronauts just needed to add water to the packaged space food and it could be eaten out of the bag with a spoon.
During Apollo missions to the Moon, astronauts had up to 70 items to choose from, which included starters, sauces and drinks.
They could even enjoy some delicious delicacies such as lobster or ice-cream.
However, sandwiches were off the menu due to bread being banned from spacecrafts.
This was not only because the bread went mouldy quickly, but it caused crumbs to float away in the cabin and cause damage to sensitive equipment or even get in the astronaut’s eyes or lungs.
But people soon got around that by using tortilla wraps, which didn’t spread crumbs and could be used to make breakfast burritos, hamburgers and even peanut butter and jelly sandwiches.
Fresh fruit and vegetables are another thing that are difficult to come by in space due to their short shelf life and lack of fridges on ISS.
However, some crew members would grow their own veggies on board and add them to dishes.
In 2013, red romaine lettuce grown in the vegetable apparatus and Expedition 44 Flight Engineers Kimiya Yui, Kjell N. Lindgren and Scott J. Kelly declared the space-grown vegetable delicious.
The Space Food Systems Laboratory at the Johnson Space Center (JSC) in Houston now tests, packages and preps food to be eaten by astronauts.
Often astronauts can get to choose dishes made from them or can even have treats to celebrate birthdays.
French astronaut Thomas G. Pesquet had macarons delivered to ISS for his birthday, while Japanese crewmembers have been known to hold sushi parties.
Pizza was first introduced in 2001 when a salami-topped slice was reheated for a Pizza Hut advert.
Because there are no freezers or fridges, sweet treats such as ice cream are difficult to store.
However, empty cargo crafts such as SpaceX Dragon, which often have freezers to hold science samples, would launch from Earth, bringing ice cream for crew to enjoy.
In November 2019, chocolate chip cookies were baked for the first time in time in space during an experiment with Doubletree Hotels.
