NASA just sent astronauts to the Moon… and packed them a Texas-style plate to go with it.
NASA launched Artemis II from Kennedy Space Center on Wednesday, April 1, sending four astronauts on a 10-day mission that will take them around the Moon. It’s the first crewed lunar mission from the U.S. since 1972, so yeah… kind of a big deal.
But what really caught our attention?
What they’re eating up there.
NASA released details of the crew’s menu, and right alongside the standard space food… there’s something a whole lot more familiar to Texans:
Barbecued beef brisket.
Yes. Brisket. In space.
The menu includes nearly 200 food options, but some of the standouts sound more like a Texas potluck than a space mission… tortillas (58 of them, to be exact), macaroni and cheese, spicy green beans, and brisket leading the charge.
And they didn’t stop there.
For dessert, astronauts have cookies, chocolate, cake, pudding, candy-coated almonds… and cobbler. Because if you’re going to orbit the Moon, you might as well do it with a full plate.
NASA even leaned into it, joking on social media:
“Brisket and cobbler and quiche, oh my!”
Beyond the menu, Artemis II is a big step forward. It’s NASA’s first crewed mission back toward the Moon in more than 50 years, and it sets the stage for getting humans back on the lunar surface.
History in the making… with a pretty solid menu.
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