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Pizza Hut, using
the recent Progress M1-6 cargo flight, delivered pizza to the
International Space Station (ISS). The small 15 cm (6 in) diameter
pizza (in order to fit into the small oven aboard ISS) featured
traditional ingredients, including a crispy crust, pizza sauce and
cheese, but was topped with salami to enhance the pizza's flavor
because researchers found that pepperoni did not withstand the
60-day testing process. The pizza was delivered to the station in
a vacuum-sealed package and cooked in an oven there.
The creation and
delivery of the pizza was the culmination of nearly a year of
collaboration between Pizza Hut and Russian food scientists.
Before final certification for delivery was given, the
vacuum-sealed Pizza Hut pizza had to undergo rigorous stabilized
thermal conditions to determine freshness-stay and life span.
Pizza
Hut has not indicated whether they will deliver pizzas on future
flights, but hinted they might. “As a leader in the pizza
delivery business, we're determined to give customers what they
want, when they want it and where they want it, even if they are
in space,” said Randy Gier, chief marketing officer of Pizza
Hut. “If space tourism is going to be a reality, Pizza Hut pizza
will make the trip even better.”
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