“Astronauts spend days, or even months, without cooking their food while in orbit. They consume food that lasts for several days.”
What Vera Files found
Astronauts in space do cook by warming or reheating pre-packaged food prepared on Earth. They eat three meals a day plus snacks, maintaining a daily intake of 2,500 calories. Of at least four types of food available during space missions, two require heating food packets. Rehydratable food items require the addition of hot or cold water, first introduced in the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s Apollo Program in the late 1960s. In December 2019, then-International Space Station ...
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In short
Rodante Marcoleta made this claim around 7 December 2022. Vera Files (Philippines) looked into it and published its finding on 13 December 2022, 6 days later. Its rating was “False”.
Rodante Marcoleta has 14 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 13 of them false or fake, 1 misleading or mixed and 0 true.
Where the claim appeared
- YouTube videohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nrc5hz94Byo
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