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Beef
Jerky Promotion Delivered to Space Station
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Beefjerky.com,
San Diego, delivered a small package of its Final Frontier Beef
Jerky to the International Space Station as part of the cargo of
the Progress M1-6 resupply spacecraft. This was the second time
the company's product has flown in space.
A small package
of jerky, weighing 55.85 grams (2-3 oz), of about 4-6 pieces, was
included in the personal allotment of supplies for each member of
the Expedition Two crew. Gregory Nemitz, Beefjerky.com spokesman,
said the jerky was specifically requested by a member of the crew,
but, as a matter of privacy, declined to name that person.
Beefjerky.com hoped to fly more, but was limited by the
restrictive mass limitations of the Progress spacecraft.
Beefjerkey.com
had tried to get a small 28 grams (1 oz) sample delivered to the
station on the STS-100 shuttle mission, offering to pay NASA
US$1,000 in “postage” to deliver it. However, Dan Tam, the
assistant to the NASA Administrator for commercialization efforts,
declined the offer.
The M1-6 Progress
flight is the second time Beefjerky.com has flown its jerky in
space. In 1997 a larger package of jerky, 1.1 kg (40 oz.), was
carried to the Mir station as part of the payload of the STS-79
shuttle mission that docked with the station.
The
company is not counting on being able to purchase cargo space on
future shuttle missions, but thinks there may be other ways to get
his company's product into orbit. The company regularly mails
fresh samples to the ISS/Shuttle food manager “so there is
always some on hand for the next shuttle crew to sample, for
inclusion on their flights.”
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