BOB BOLLOW, DOWNERS GROVE, ILLINOIS: My name is Bob. And I'm from Downers Grove, Illinois. And my question is: How and where is the food produced that the astronauts take into space?</s>CADY COLEMAN, NASA ASTRONAUT: The food is actually made on the ground in some kitchens that we have at NASA. And what I like to tell people is that the food all looks very bad, but it tastes pretty good. And some of it is dehydrated food. Some of it is kind of preserved, you know, in meals ready to eat like the military has. All of it is in little packages that we can open and eat sort of in one meal, because it's really hard to store leftovers up there. But dehydrated stuff we hydrate by hooking it up to our galley. Our galley is just a needle that water comes out of. And we hook these packages onto it. These packages have little seals on them, kind of like when you poke a straw into a juice box. On a space shuttle, we actually make our water with the fuel cells. So we have plenty of water once we get up on orbit. And so we like to launch with the least amount of weight possible. That's why we dehydrate the food.
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