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nasa's culinary challenged students from

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all across the country to develop a

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recipe for flight that is create a meal

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that astronauts would enjoy in space and

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given the dietary restrictions that was

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no easy task it was a huge learning

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experience for all these classes

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including for one right here in

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huntsville from the huntsville center

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for technology they made it all the way

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to the top ten but could their tasty

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we're excited to be in the nasa culinary

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hunch challenge we're excited to go to

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houston i think it's going to be a good

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experience going to the johnson space

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center food lab

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um

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i just can't wait good to see their

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kitchen get to see everything they do so

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that is like amazing to see what they

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have in there versus what we have so i'm

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really happy to go up there because i've

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never been there so i'm really happy to

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go and see what they have getting right

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in our dishes they um a quick brown rice

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mexican paella it was an indian dish

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before but we had to um put our own or

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change it to make it our own we tried

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many different entrees before that like

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we tried ratatouille we tried

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multiple ones and they didn't really

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turn out cool processes it's like hard

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but you have to like

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pay attention to all the details if a

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meal going to anyone else you don't

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really have to look for the salt or

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anything like that you just have to make

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sure it tastes really really good but

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you go into space you have to make sure

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the salt is right you have to make sure

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it looks good when you get dehydrated

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you have to just look at a lot of stuff

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you have to use less sodium because um

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taste buds are off in space so we have

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to use more spicy foods because they can

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taste that

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all of my teammates we are really close

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and we get along very well so it wasn't

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hard for us to bond when we were doing

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during this experience um

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we talked a lot when we were cooking and

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i don't know we're just having fun

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together as a team my team is crazy

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it's been fun

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it's been a lot of back and forth but

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it's been fun being with them every day

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cooking with them and everything it's so

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fun and

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you know learning different people and

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how they cook and everything and all

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that fashion is gonna love it it's gonna

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be amazing

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so here at the huntsville center for

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technology i'm with their instructor

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karen rodriguez

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and tell us did the astronauts like it

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they sure did they uh enjoyed it so how

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did you get into this competition um the

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nasa representative for uh hunch bob

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dropped by when he was here to see our

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other instructors and said here would

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you like to do this

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and we had some interest and we said

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sure why not you have the opportunity to

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go to johnson space center to the food

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lab where they create all this and tell

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us about the competition what went on

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we arrived at the competition and

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it was really exciting walking in

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and then setting up and getting ready

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looking at the other teams and what they

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did

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and then hearing um

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people talk about

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the the johnson food lab that was very

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interesting

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you had astronauts judge it is that

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right is that there were some astronauts

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and then some employees from the johnson

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food lab

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and a few other people

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there was about 12 judges

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so would you do it all over again oh of

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course i can't wait till next year you

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had a great group of girls and how did

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you decide what you were going to make

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they did a lot of experimenting i made

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them pick three recipes and we tested

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the recipes

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we looked at the

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guidelines as far as fiber fat sugar

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content those kind of things and we

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narrowed it down to one it was an indian

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dish and they ended up changing it to a

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mexican

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dish that was a little more colorful

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and you said it was spicy and

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healthy healthy yes yeah high fiber

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and spicy

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you guys came in

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third place but you're still going to

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get

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something in in your in a cookbook right

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yes the recipe will go in a

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nasa cookbook all right so all the

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astronauts and and all of us can enjoy

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it here on earth we can see tasty and

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healthy and they'll look forward to next

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year but third place congratulations oh

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yes thank you very much thank you

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yes congratulations to them again and to

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the winning team from passaic county

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technical institute from new jersey

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where they're winning red pepper risotto

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now their entree will be processed for

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flight for the astronauts to try on the

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international space station in a close

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second was another team from right here