Ice cream is blasting off for the crew of the International Space Station (ISS). <\/p>\n
The frozen confectionery not the freeze-dried souvenir version sold in museum gift shops is packed on board the first NASA-contracted commercial mission to resupply the orbiting laboratory. <\/p>\n
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The Commercial Resupply Services-1 (CRS-1) mission is scheduled to lift off on a Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) Falcon 9 rocket on Sunday (Oct. 7) at 8:35 p.m. EDT (0035 GMT Oct. 8) from Launch Complex 40 at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. <\/p>\n
The ice cream, which is now a not-so-secret surprise for the station's current three member crew, was confirmed as on board SpaceX's Dragon cargo capsule by NASA after a pre-launch press conference Saturday (Oct. 6) raised the possibility that it was included. <\/p>\n
\"We talked about flying ice cream,\" said NASA's manager for the space station program, Michael Suffredini. \"We try to bring up what we call 'bonus food' for the crew, and this is one of those flights that will have that.\" (Space Food Photos: What Astronauts Eat in Orbit) <\/p>\n
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The vanilla with swirled chocolate sauce ice cream cups won't melt on their three-day journey to the space station thanks to a freezer on board the Dragon capsule. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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