Yamazaki serves up hand-made sushi on ISS
HOUSTON (Kyodo) Astronauts Naoko Yamazaki and Soichi Noguchi have asked their colleagues aboard the International Space Station to try out some hand-rolled sushi.
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| Zero-G snack: Astronaut Naoko Yamazaki (in kimono) makes sushi with astronaut Soichi Noguchi on the International Space Station in this photo released by NASA on Wednesday. KYODO PHOTO |
Images issued by NASA on Wednesday showed Yamazaki in a pink kimono putting rice on dried seaweed and handing the sushi rolls to her fellow astronauts.
While a few bits of rice drifted away in the space station's zero-gravity environment, Noguchi caught them in midair with his mouth.
Noguchi said before his departure in December that he would make sushi in space, and NASA allowed him to bring freeze-dried scallops and tuna to the orbiting facility.
Since docking with space shuttle Discovery, the ISS has developed a mechanical problem in one of its two cooling devices, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration said.
The glitch will not affect the station's operations, but it requires a quick fix that might delay Discovery's return Monday by a day or so, NASA officials said.
The shuttle blasted off from Kennedy Space Center in Florida on April 5 for a 13-day mission. The shuttle and its seven-strong crew were originally scheduled to return to Earth on Sunday but delayed departure until Monday to fix its antenna.
Yamazaki is among Discovery's seven crew members. Astronauts and cosmonauts on the shuttle and the ISS were trying to wrap up the transfer of equipment and science experiments between the two vehicles.
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