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Astronauts Say Space Station Food Out of This World

When it comes to grabbing a bite to eat, the international space station is living up to its first name.It's a veritable food court of international cuisine, observed new resident Nicole Stott, an American astronaut who will stay aboard the space station until November.Stott said she found that for different meals she could sample foods from various parts of the world: U.S., Canada, Japan, Europe and Russia ."I think you can find something for anyone," Stott said in a Friday night news conference by the 13 members of the joint crews of the space shuttle Discovery and space station. Stott is moving into the space station, after getting a ride on the shuttle.Stott and her fellow astronauts addressed reporters through a video link hours after a piece of space junk sped safely by the two spacecraft. NASA had been monitoring the situation but decided it was unlikely to be a problem, and the old rocket part passed Friday morning as the astronauts slept.In past years, astronauts have complain...

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