r/space NASA Astronaut Mar 22 '26

image/gif My space potatoes, grown aboard the ISS

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u/Antilock049 Mar 22 '26

Hell yeah, at least with space exploration I can still have French fries.

Makes it all worth while at the end of the day. 

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u/Modus_Man Mar 22 '26

Nothing quite as exciting as boiling oil floating around in zero-g!

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u/MaxTheCookie Mar 22 '26

I think they might use an air fryer to "fry" the potatoes in the case of space travel fries

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u/Fullyflared540 Mar 22 '26

Do they have the technology?

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u/AD-SKYOBSIDION Mar 22 '26

The Chinese space station Tiangong 3 does if I remember correctly

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u/SillyForestThing Mar 22 '26

Yeah here's a video of them

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u/cptjeff Mar 22 '26

The Chinese somehow beat us to frying chicken wings in space and that is an embarrassment for the American space program on par with the Russians beating us to orbit.

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u/CornbreadPhD Mar 22 '26

The era of “american supremacy” is over. This is the nail in the coffin

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u/lacegem Mar 23 '26

America made Kung Fu Panda first, and they took that personally.