Astronaut Mint Chocolate Chip Ice Cream Sandwiches (1oz)
Ice Cream Sandwiches - Astronaut Foods 👨🚀 🍦
Notes: These ice cream sandwiches are not cold, and they were developed for NASA's Apollo 7 program.
Experience the world of astronauts through this incredibly unique ice cream sold at NASA and aerospace museums. Astronaut Foods Ice Cream Sandwiches has become a cultural experience for those who dream of experiencing a part of the astronaut life while visiting museum gift shops. Here’s a fun fact: Astronaut Ice Cream Sandwiches doesn't need freezing, can withstand the hottest weather, and won’t melt or drip — ALL WITHOUT PRESERVATIVES, just all the fun 😝
🎁 This is the perfect gift for those passionate about aeronautics and space science. Let Astronaut Ice Cream Sandwiches take you to new horizons! 🚀
More details about this amazing ice cream below ⬇️
Astronaut Foods
Astronaut Foods offers a unique line of freeze-dried snacks inspired by real space missions. Originally developed for NASA astronauts, their products provide a fun, out-of-this-world snacking experience with a variety of flavors and formats to bring Earth's taste to space.
Brand | Astronaut Foods |
Flavor | Mint Chocolate Chip |
Weight | 1oz |
Astronaut Foods uses REAL ice cream that is placed into a vacuum chamber and frozen to 60 degrees BELOW zero. This causes the water from the ice cream to turn into ice. Next, the pressure is lowered in the chamber and enough heat is slowly added to allow the ice to change directly from solid to vapor without passing through a liquid phase. This process continues for hours, resulting in a perfect freeze-dried ice cream.
The typical machine used in the freeze-drying process consists of a chamber, heating unit, vacuum pump, and freezing coil. The airtight steel chamber withstands large temperature and atmospheric pressure changes. The heating unit heats the shelves inside the freeze-drying chamber. The vacuum pump removes air, lowering the pressure inside the chamber. The freezing coil and compressor, which is like the one in your refrigerator at home, collects the evaporated water.
It has long been disputed whether or not freeze-dried ice cream made an appearance on the Apollo 7 mission. However, what Astronaut Foods does know is that their ice cream was created with the intention of being used for the space program and space education. In early 2016, late show host Stephen Colbert sent Astronaut Foods ice cream into space LIVE, so yes, they can confirm it has been to space!
Freeze-drying is like suspended animation, because it keeps the ice cream totally intact, but without the water. As you eat the crunchy pieces of ice cream, it melts in your mouth and becomes a creamy yumminess.
50 YEARS IN SPACE
The original Astronaut Ice Cream since 1974!
STEM.ORG CERTIFIED
Lyophilization, also known as freeze-drying, turns our ice cream & fruit into space food!
SPACE FOUNDATION CERTIFIED
Developed alongside NASA, Astronaut Foods use space technology to bring treats to Earth.
1% FOR THE PLANET
Astronaut Foods contributes at least 1% of our annual revenue to environmental causes to protect the environment.